Eastern Africa’s earliest livestock herders continued fishing, hunting and gathering for centuries, which may have helped ...

CFI funding will enable UBC astronomers and partners to support Canada’s contribution to the most powerful optical and ...

Dr. Bridgette Clarkston, associate professor of teaching with UBC Botany, has been awarded one of this year's BCTLC West ...

AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI ...

The critically endangered giant guitarfish is among the species being caught by bottom trawling, according to a new global inventory published by University of British Columbia researchers (Sarah ...

Arctic tracking shows ringed seals trade safety for food variety—evidence that conservation plans must factor in both food and fear. As climate change reshapes Arctic food webs, ringed seals will swim ...

Credit: Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute. Quantum materials, astronomy, and life sciences research at UBC got a major boost today with the announcement of the latest round of Canada Foundation ...

Scarlet monkeyflower plant in natural habitat. Photo credit: Seema Sheth. For the first time in the wild, researchers have shown plant populations can evolve quickly enough to rebound from extreme ...

Dr. Curtis Suttle has ben awarded the Jacob Biely Research Prize and Dr. Jess McIver has received the Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research. Two of the university’s premier research ...

They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious. UBC ...

They don’t march in the streets or storm the polls, but a new breed of AI-controlled personas could be the next big threat to democracy. In a new article in Science, a team of researchers is warning ...

Physicists at UBC sent a laser beam of an optical centrifuge into helium nano-droplets doped with dimers of nitric oxide (Valery Milner, UBC). Physicists have used a new optical centrifuge to control ...