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February 17, 2014
Challenging a long held view that low levels of atmospheric oxygen prevented the evolution of animals, new findings show that primitive animals can survive under extremely low oxygen conditions, according to researchers at the University of British Columbia, the University of Southern Denmark, and...
February 13, 2014
University of British Columbia scientists have found for the first time an infectious form of the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii in western Arctic Beluga, prompting a call for caution for the Inuit people who eat whale meat.
The same team discovered a new strain of the parasite Sarcocystis,...
February 11, 2014
The University of British Columbia celebrates the significant increase in federal government support for research announced today in Budget 2014, in particular the creation of the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
Announced by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty as part of the budget tabled today in...
February 3, 2014
UBC computer scientist Kevin Leyton-Brown is one of six Canadian researchers awarded an EWR Steacie Memorial Fellowship today, valued at more than $250,000.
The fellowship recognizes the work of young scientists at Canadian universities. Leyton-Brown’s research focuses on how financial traders make...
February 3, 2014
A Canadian team including UBC physicist Walter Hardy and TRIUMF researchers have won the NSERC John C Polanyi Award for their work in creating, capturing and characterizing the antihydrogen atom.
The award "honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent outstanding...
January 31, 2014
When David Lowe first wrote a computer algorithm to identify objects in images, he never envisioned it popping up on nearly half a million iPhones and in supermarket checkout lines.
But since its research publication in 1999, the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm, developed by Lowe...
January 29, 2014
Increasingly extreme swings in temperature may put some insects at higher risk than previously thought, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
An international team of scientists tested the impact of temperature patterns on 38 species of insects...
January 27, 2014
Not enough current research on marine ecosystems focuses on species' long-term adaptation to ocean acidification, creating a murky picture of our oceans' future, according to an international study led by a UBC zoologist.
"We can't measure evolutionary responses in all organisms, so we need to...
January 19, 2014
UBC researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns a common gut bacterium into the swiss army knife of the digestive tract -- helping us to metabolize a main component of dietary fibre from the cell walls of fruits and vegetables.
The findings illuminate the specialized roles played...
January 15, 2014
This May, UBC geology students doing field studies will be able to put theory into practise -- and avoid cliffs -- using new base maps funded through Shell Canada’s Campus Ambassador Program (CAP).
Every summer UBC geology students hone their field techniques at the Geological Field School based...
