UBC has opened a $45 million expansion of the Beaty Biodiversity Centre, made possible by philanthropic support from the Ross and Trisha Beaty family and Gordon B. Shrum, matched by UBC. The Centre houses the Biodiversity Research Centre and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. The extension…
September 10, 2025
Scientists celebrate the anniversary of the first gravitational wave ever detected with new resultsA decade after the groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves, an international team, including researchers from the University of British Columbia, has observed the loudest black hole merger to… read more
September 2, 2025
Five UBC Science professors have been named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their research in the fields of atmospheric aerosols, marine ecosystems and fisheries, fast radio bursts, computer visualization, and human-computer interaction. Joining more than 60 UBC Science… read more
September 1, 2025
In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling. The problem with turning the matter-out-of-nowhere theory into… read more
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