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April 12, 2021
Scientists, led by researchers at the University of British Columbia, have discovered three liquid phases in aerosol particles, changing our understanding of air pollutants in the Earth’s atmosphere.
While aerosol particles were known to contain up to two liquid phases, the discovery of an...
April 8, 2021
Last week members of the UBC Science community joined together in a community of care in support of faculty, staff and students impacted by increased anti-Asian violence and words of hate in Vancouver, across Canada, and internationally. We can't express how profoundly disturbed we are by this...
April 5, 2021
Seafood is a pillar of global food security—long recognized for its protein content. But research is highlighting a critical new link between the biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems and the micronutrient-rich seafood diets that help combat micronutrient deficiencies, or ‘hidden hunger’, in...
March 31, 2021
Researchers with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have announced the world’s first laser-based manipulation of antimatter, leveraging a made-in-Canada laser system to cool a sample of antimatter down to near absolute zero. The achievement, detailed in an article published today and featured...
March 30, 2021
New research in Nature Communications details the painstaking unraveling and reconstruction of a key protein in a single-celled, photosynthetic organism called a cryptophyte, a type of algae that evolved over a billion years ago.
Up until now, how cryptophytes acquired the proteins used to capture...
March 11, 2021
The Canadian Mineralogist, a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers from worldwide authors on all aspects of mineralogy, crystallography, petrology, geochemistry and mineral deposits, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.
In typical Canadian fashion, the journal operates on a...
March 8, 2021
Pacific great blue herons could be scooping up as many as three percent of all juvenile salmon and as many as six percent in some years with low water flow, according to a new University of British Columbia study.
The study, published in The Canadian Journal of Zoology, is the first to estimate the...
March 3, 2021
Three UBC Science-led projects have received $13.7 million in infrastructure support through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), with researchers across the Faculty involved in another four new projects receiving an additional $25 million in funding.
The funding is part of $518 million in...
February 22, 2021
Dr. Zac Hudson believes your morning cup of coffee should be strong and guilt-free. That’s why the University of British Columbia scientist has spent the past three years creating a new fully compostable coffee pod with Surrey-based NEXE Innovations.
“Every year more than 40 billion single-use...
February 16, 2021
UBC biologist Dr. Ben Matthews is a recipient of a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship, an award which celebrates top early career researchers.
Matthews heads a UBC lab that studies the genetics, genomics and behavior of mosquitoes, which are considered some of the deadliest animals in the world due to...
