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

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

UBC Science researchers predict Star Trek-style medical ‘Tricorders’ and the discovery of Earth-like planets in the January issue of UBC Reports, The Next Big Thing. This is the fifth year that UBC ...

Join us at this international gathering of researchers working on diverse aspects of quantum computing--experimental and theoretical approaches to realizing quantum computing, quantum-inspired ...

The loss of large predator animals across the globe is having unanticipated impacts on processes as diverse as human disease dynamics, wildfires and biogeochemical cycles, according to new research by ...

UBC Science builds on and expands its research excellence with the appointment of two new Canada Research Chairs and the renewal of six previously appointed Chairs. Ken Harder, CRC in Host-Pathogen ...

Iceland’s geothermal hotsprings and majestic glaciers are attracting a new type of adventure seeker to the small island nation. ISCI 361 – an intensive, three-week field course launched this May by ...

UBC researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a host. The discovery of the role played by ...

Two UBC researchers have been named among the most promising early-career scholars in North America by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. Russ Algar (Chemistry) and Mark Schmidt (Computer Science) have ...

UBC researchers have invented a silicone chip that could make genetic analysis far more sensitive, rapid, and cost-effective by allowing individual cells to fall into place like balls in a pinball ...