Here’s a look back at some of the year’s biggest highlights for the UBC Vancouver Thunderbirds and UBC Okanagan Heat. As 2024 draws to a close, UBC’s athletes have delivered a year to remember across ...

NSERC Postdoctoral FellowLandscape ecology, fire history reconstruction ...

A global study of more than 66,000 participants has revealed which groups of people are most susceptible to misinformation. Study participants assessed news headlines and tried to judge whether they ...

Thanks to an accidental discovery, researchers at the University of British Columbia have created a new super-black material that absorbs almost all light, opening potential applications in fine ...

An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasn’t supposed to have: a galaxy cluster blazing with hot gas just 1.4 billion years after the Big ...

A new study from UBC researchers finds that teens, especially girls, have better mental health when they spend more time taking part in extracurricular activities, like sports and art, and less time ...

The public has the wrong idea about what homeless people would do after coming into a large amount of money. A newly published University of B.C. study in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Time is everything in health care. Imagine a loved one with high-risk breast cancer being prioritized for treatment in days, not months. A doctor who is able to spend more time with patients and less ...

The earliest warning signs of multiple sclerosis (MS) may emerge more than a decade before the first classical neurological symptoms occur, according to new research from the University of British ...

Food prices in Canada are projected to rise by three to five per cent in 2025, adding up to $801 more to the annual grocery bill for an average family of four, according to Canada’s Food Price Report ...

All your favourite Canadianisms—and 137 new ones—just got easier to find, right in time for Canada Day. The UBC editors of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles have released an ...

The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes developed at the University of British Columbia to help prevent a mismatch and ...