UBC faculty and staff are invited to join guest speaker Dr. Sweeney Windchief for his seminar on Indigenous methodologies in academic research.

Prepare for next steps after your BSc. Strengthen your résumé, explore job search skills, and more. Designed for UBC Science students. Participate in a series of virtual workshops designed to help you ...

Imagine UBC is the university’s biggest back-to-school event, welcoming many new students into the Faculty. It's full of exciting opportunities to meet others and learn about UBC Science. New students ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early Universe.

An international team of astronomers, including University of British Columbia researchers, has announced the discovery of 62 new moons orbiting Saturn, catapulting the planet back into first place in ...

Southern Resident killer whales swimming. Credit: Paul Cottrell, DFO. A chemical used in the production of toilet paper and 'forever chemicals' have been found in the bodies of orcas in B.C. , ...

Artist’s conception of Kepler telescope observing planets transiting a distant star (NASA Ames/W Stenzel). There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky way ...

The Thunderbird Reactor is a custom-made, bench-top-sized particle accelerator and electrochemical reactor built by an interdisciplinary team at The University of British Columbia. Using a small bench ...

Horse-fly sideview. Wikimedia Commons. Darwin was puzzled by cooperation in nature—it ran directly against natural selection and the notion of survival of the fittest. But over the past decades, ...

Experimental apparatus and laser used by researchers at the University of British Columbia, RIKEN and Kanazawa University to demonstrate superfluidity in hydrogen (Chie Nakayama, University of British ...

Dr. Abhishek Soni adjusts a CO2 electrolyzer powered by thermoelectric generators. Credit: Alex Walls, UBC Media Relations. Readily available thermoelectric generators operating under modest ...

AI generated image of a pair of tornadoes. DeepAI. In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously ...