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May 11, 2023
An international team of astronomers, including University of British Columbia researchers, has announced the discovery of 62 new moons orbiting Saturn, catapulting the planet back into first place in the Solar System’s 'moon race'.
The new discoveries mean that Saturn has not only regained...
May 4, 2023
UBC planetary scientist Dr. Catherine Johnson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Johnson is a geophysics professor with UBC’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, where she uses observatory and satellite data to probe the interior structure and history of...
May 2, 2023
Contrary to what is stated in biology textbooks, the growth of fish doesn’t slow down when and because they start spawning. In fact, their growth accelerates after they reproduce, according to a new article published in Science.
“Fish don’t have to choose between growth or reproduction...
April 26, 2023
A Canadian-led research team has doubled the number of repeating fast radio bursts, adding 25 new ‘cosmic probes’.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are cosmic radio signals: extremely short, energetic pulses of radio emission emanating from space. They’re an astronomical mystery, as scientists aren’t...
April 20, 2023
iSeahorse, a global platform for seahorse science and conservation developed by UBC researchers, has reached a significant milestone with 10,000 observations submitted by community scientists.
The 10,000th observation was made by Dennis Rabeling, a long-time and enthusiastic contributor to...
April 18, 2023
A new training program housed at the University of British Columbia will help prepare graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in B.C. and Western Canada for a future driven by next generation AI and machine learning solutions.
The $1.6 million Advanced Machine Learning Training Network (AML-TN)...
April 11, 2023
Material left on the seafloor by bronze-age underwater volcanic eruptions is helping researchers better understand the size, hazards and climate impact of their parent eruptions, according to new research from the University of British Columbia.
Roughly 3,600 years ago, the eruption of a semi-...
April 5, 2023
Quantum machine learning models can achieve ‘quantum advantage’ by solving a complex class of mathematical problems impossible to crack with a classical computer, according to new research by UBC material scientists.
UBC Blusson Quantum Mater Institute (Blusson QMI) investigator Professor Roman...
March 29, 2023
Life comes in all shapes in sizes, but some sizes are more popular than others, new research from the University of British Columbia has found.
In the first study of its kind published today in PLOS ONE, Dr. Eden Tekwa, who conducted the study as a postdoctoral fellow at UBC’s department of...
March 27, 2023
A new Paper Park Index (PPI) developed by fisheries researchers at the University of British Columbia has helped identify 55 marine protected areas (MPAs) across the world which are protected on paper only.
Most of the ‘paper parks’, or MPAs that fail to protect marine biodiversity, are...
