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

Aquaculture is increasingly relying on species that are less beneficial for food security, climate mitigation, and ...

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 ...

Imagine UBC and the University's orientation programs serve as new students' formal welcome to the University, and to the learning community they have joined. Imagine UBC helps both first year and ...

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 ...

Dr. Carolina Tropini’s team works toward ways to mitigate potential negative effects of bowel preparation procedures. (Photo Leslie Kennah) New preclinical research suggests that bowel preparation ...

Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe (Credit: Lingxiao Yuan). An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasn’t ...

UBC Science research made headlines in 2025. Here's our top picks. From breakthroughs in organ transplantation to alerting us to the risks of space junk, UBC Science research made headlines in 2025.

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 ...