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Math + Data Science

Wide distribution of opioid antidote kits can slash overdose deaths during epidemics

Bacteria + Viruses

What’s in a niche? Time to rethink microbial ecology, say researchers

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Student-centred science classes flourishing at UBC, despite slow adoption across North America

Science Education

UBC and BCIT launch Western Canada's first degree in forensic sciences

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Canada 150 Research Chair in evolutionary genomics joins UBC Science

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Indistinguishable from magic: hunting for spiders in Mexico’s cloud forests

Last year, UBC zoologist Wayne Maddison travelled to the highlands of southern Mexico in pursuit of undiscovered species of jumping spiders.

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Vancouver craft brew pioneer pours botany, biology into the mix

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