There’s a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, ...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins University have ...

Raymond Anderson, a leading marine natural product chemist with both Chemistry and Earth and Ocean Sciences, has received the 2012 Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Medal. The CIC Medal is given ...

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 ...

Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new ...

UBC Science researchers have received $10.5 million in funding from Genome Canada and international partners to create the first reference genome of the sunflower family – work that will pinpoint ...

An eminent UBC evolutionary biologist whose early work focused on Charles Darwin's famous Galápagos Island finches has been named to one of the world's most prestigious honorary societies. Dolph ...

Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a University of British Columbia study published today in ...

UBC Science has completed a two-year review of the working climate with respect to gender equity and overall recruitment and retention for Science faculty. "The results show a gap between what we ...

UBC Science faculty members have been awarded close to $1.2 million in research funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The ten funded projects are led by researchers in the departments ...

UBC theoretical physicist Ian Affleck and evolutionary biologist Loren Rieseberg have been elected to the United Kingdom's Royal Society. The UBC researchers are among 44 new fellows joining the ranks ...