The Track & Trace pilot program will map where substances are coming from and going to, informing public safety and health.

From seahorses to sharks, over 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, including many at risk of extinction, ...

New research could help engineer crops that recover after extreme weather events. Plants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to ...

Scarlet monkeyflower plant in natural habitat. Photo credit: Seema Sheth. For the first time in the wild, researchers have shown plant populations can evolve quickly enough to rebound from extreme ...

Dr. Curtis Suttle has ben awarded the Jacob Biely Research Prize and Dr. Jess McIver has received the Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research. Two of the university’s premier research ...

They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious. UBC ...

Physicists at UBC sent a laser beam of an optical centrifuge into helium nano-droplets doped with dimers of nitric oxide (Valery Milner, UBC). Physicists have used a new optical centrifuge to control ...

Dolphin with a pod of northern resident killer whales. UBC (A Trites), Dalhousie (S Fortune), Hakai Institute (K Holmes), Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (X Cheng). A new study has ...

On-demand electronic switching of topology in a single crystal (OpenAI DALL·E through ChatGPT). University of British Columbia (UBC) scientists have demonstrated a reversible way to switch the ...

Far-infrared image from the Herschel Space Observatory overlaid with optical data from Euclid (Ryley Hill, University of British Columbia, European Space Agency). Astronomers have released a sneak ...

Dr. Zachary Hudson, a UBC chemist developing advanced materials that are transforming how we diagnose disease, reduce electricity consumption and reduce plastic waste, has been awarded an Arthur B.

Geopyxis’s distinctive brown cups and white rims. Seen here after the 2022 California Caldor fire. (Monika Fischer, UBC). As B.C. faces increasingly severe wildfire seasons, new research at UBC is ...