Meet Mishena (she/her) who volunteered as a First Year Orientation Leader, then returned as a Senior Orientation Leader. She is currently pursuing a BSc combined major in Physics, Statistics, and Life ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...