It turns out colour isn’t just a fashion statement for guppies. According to a new University of British Columbia study, the ...

Researchers have identified buried copper ore by testing the DNA of microbes in the surface soil. These ‘biological ...

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, new University of British Columbia research shows.

UBC’s departments of statistics and computer science have joined forces to create a new undergraduate, interdisciplinary data science program.

Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster and more accurately than existing methods.

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human pandemic, was seven months, and Canada came in last, a new study has found.

Hydrogen nano-clusters at low temperatures display ‘superfluidity’—a quantum state of frictionless flow only previously observed in helium.

Readily available thermoelectric generators can power CO2 conversion, according to a proof-of-concept study by chemists at UBC.

A modified compound taken from bloodroot, a wildflower native to North America, effectively fights multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in the test tube, according to a new study.

Lavas from hotspots—whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland—likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth’s mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots published today ...

Darwin was puzzled by cooperation in nature—it ran directly against natural selection and the notion of survival of the fittest.