It turns out colour isn’t just a fashion statement for guppies. According to a new University of British Columbia study, the ...

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, new University of British Columbia research shows.

UBC’s departments of statistics and computer science have joined forces to create a new undergraduate, interdisciplinary data science program.

Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster and more accurately than existing methods.

Some genes just don’t play fair.Researchers have uncovered a ‘selfish’ X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance in both sperm and eggs.

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human pandemic, was seven months, and Canada came in last, a new study has found.

Hydrogen nano-clusters at low temperatures display ‘superfluidity’—a quantum state of frictionless flow only previously observed in helium.

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I am pleased to announce the extension of the appointment of Dr. Mark MacLachlan, Dean pro tem, for the Faculty of Science.

Readily available thermoelectric generators can power CO2 conversion, according to a proof-of-concept study by chemists at UBC.