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September 13, 2021
The planned launch of thousands of communications satellites over the next few years is expected to have the most impact on our view of the night sky over many cities in Canada including Calgary, Regina, Vancouver and Winnipeg.
Researchers at the University of Regina, UBC and University of Toronto...
September 9, 2021
Undergraduate students at UBC Vancouver have two new options to pursue studies in data and computational science this fall with the launch of new minor and first-year cohort programs.
UBC Vancouver’s new Data Science Minor is an interdisciplinary program offered jointly via the departments of...
September 7, 2021
Three UBC Science researchers have been elected to join the Royal Society of Canada. Professors Alejandro Adem, Curtis Berlinguette and Raymond Ng join over 40 UBC Science researchers in the RSC since 2000.
The Royal Society of Canada elects scholars who have made significant contribution in...
August 19, 2021
Rowenna Gryba is fascinated by the confluence of statistics and geography. For the past few years her work has focused on Arctic seal populations. Her new study pairs Indigenous Knowledge of seal behaviour near Utqiaġvik, Alaska with satellite telemetry. “If we honor the information that people are...
August 13, 2021
The University of British Columbia has received $22 million from the B.C. Knowledge Development Fund for 24 research projects across campus.
Nine of the projects involve UBC Science researchers in areas such as climate and environment, particle physics, and computer science.
“The BCKDF...
August 11, 2021
Finding animals in the wild can be tough, even for researchers with access to airplanes, high-end cameras and other costly gear.
Many animals blend with their surroundings or hide in places that human eyes can’t reach. This is especially true of marine animals, who move under cover of water.
That’s...
August 9, 2021
The delicate stalk and pretty white flowers of Triantha occidentalis may seem like the perfect place to perch if you’re an insect, but get trapped in its sticky hairs and it will suck the nutrients from your dead corpse.
That’s the surprising new finding by University of British Columbia and...
August 5, 2021
The Arctic tern—which has the world record for the longest annual migration—uses just a few select routes, a key finding that could help efforts to conserve the species, according to a new University of British Columbia study.
Globally, Arctic terns are declining and their wide geographical range...
July 28, 2021
Scientists have published a new, detailed radio image of the Andromeda galaxy – the Milky Way’s sister galaxy – which will allow them to identify and study the regions of Andromeda where new stars are born.
The study – which is the first to create a radio image of Andromeda at the microwave...
June 30, 2021
Caltech and University of British Columbia (UBC) astronomers have discovered the smallest and most massive white dwarf star ever seen—at 4,300 kilometers across it’s just larger than Earth's moon.
Though the white dwarf is small, it is heavy, "packing a mass greater than that of our sun into a...
