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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What comes after grad? Meet professionals with BSc degrees from diverse work and research fields. Join us at our annual event where we bring BSc alumni to chat with you about what they got up to after ...

Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world's coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers. In a study ...

UBC mathematicians have been recognized at the national level with four research awards over the past several weeks. Professor Rachel Kuske, head of the Department of Mathematics, was awarded the 2011 ...

Two Canadian amateur stargazers get to trade in their backyard telescopes for one 820 kilometres up in space. Dozens of proposals poured in over the last year after scientists in charge of MOST—a ...