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November 15, 2023
Eleven UBC Science-affiliated researchers have been listed among the most highly cited investigators worldwide in 2023 by Clarivate Analytics on November 15. The researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple highly cited papers over the...
November 9, 2023
On the remote and rugged Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, birdlife prospers. Native to the islands, hundreds of thousands of gentoo penguins live and hunt, using the islands as a breeding zone for their tiny chicks.
The birth dates, and chances for survival, of chicks depend on when their...
October 30, 2023
The nutrients available from seafood could drop by 30 per cent for low-income countries by the end of the century due to climate change, suggests new UBC research.
That’s in a high carbon emissions and low mitigation scenario, according to the study published today in Nature Climate Change. This...
October 25, 2023
Researchers have identified buried kimberlite, the rocky home of diamonds, by testing the DNA of microbes in the surface soil.
These ‘biological fingerprints’ can reveal what minerals are buried tens of metres below the earth’s surface without having to drill. The researchers believe it is the...
October 19, 2023
It’s prime sprouting time in British Columbia for many a species of fungi, so aspiring mushroom hunters may be wondering just how to go about picking a patch of porcini.
Dr. Mary Berbee, professor in the UBC department of botany, discusses how to safely and legally forage for mushrooms around the...
October 12, 2023
Vancouverites will be able to view most of an annular solar eclipse this Saturday.
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun at its furthest point from our planet, meaning it doesn’t blot out the sun entirely but instead is surrounded by a ‘ring of fire’ for...
October 3, 2023
Internationally renowned fisheries researcher Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila has been recognized by the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco with the 2023 Albert I Grand Medal in the science category.
The medal is the most prestigious prize given by the institute for significant work in the physical and...
September 27, 2023
In the world’s first observation of the effect of gravity on antimatter, a group of researchers from Canada and around the world have made an important confirmation: like matter, antimatter does indeed ‘fall downwards’.
Antimatter is the obscure counterpart to the ‘normal’ matter that makes up our...
September 25, 2023
This weekend, samples collected from the Bennu asteroid successfully touched down in the Utah Test and Training Range—a milestone for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and partners at the Canadian Space Agency. UBC has already made major contributions to the mission – a team including UBC planetary...
September 21, 2023
Balanophora shed one third of its genes as it evolved into a streamlined parasitic plant—an extreme degree of genome shrinkage even among parasites—according to new research in Nature Plants. Along the way this subtropical plant developed the ability to induce the host plant to grow into the...
