New research outlines an enhanced approach that could lead to treatments for prostate cancer and other diseases.

We honour xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) on whose ancestral, unceded territory UBC Vancouver is situated. UBC Science is committed to building meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples so we can ...

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

The critically endangered giant guitarfish is among the species being caught by bottom trawling, according to a new global inventory published by University of British Columbia researchers (Sarah ...

From generating a project idea and conducting experiments, to writing a scientific paper and evaluating its own work, an AI scientist can now carry out a research experiment from beginning to end — ...

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 ...

They don’t march in the streets or storm the polls, but a new breed of AI-controlled personas could be the next big threat to democracy. In a new article in Science, a team of researchers is warning ...

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 ...