A UBC research team has developed a cleaner way to produce rayon, a popular fabric used in clothing for more than a century.

Nature is a source of well-being and recovery for many people. However, research shows that there is also a growing number of ...

Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large ...

A common misconception about research is that it takes place in climate-controlled labs with microscopes, beakers, and Bunsen ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

While it is widely assumed that civil wars reinforce the existing political divisions, a recent sociological study sheds ...

Highspeed Internet, autonomous driving, the Internet of Things: data streams are proliferating at enormous speed. But classic ...

Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait ...

Cholera is a deadly bacterial disease that kills about 95,000 people every year. Vibrio cholerae bacteria infect cells in the ...

If you've ever been on the sidelines at an under-12's team sport, you will know that some children are fiercely competitive, ...

Flood management is a priority for many governments around the world. Recent floods have led to hundreds of deaths and caused ...