Canada’s wildfire season has had an early and intense start, with states of emergency declared in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and forecasts warning of severe conditions across central and eastern Canada ...

A new study from the University of British Columbia has found that artificial turf fields across Metro Vancouver leach 6PPD-quinone, a chemical known to kill coho salmon, into municipal stormwater ...

Western tent caterpillars might not be on your mind every year, but during their peak outbreaks, they’re impossible to ignore—hairy larvae wriggling across roads and swarms of caterpillars climbing ...

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 ...

Postdoctoral Fellow & Sessional LecturerSeismic retrofit strategies for low-rise unreinforced masonry, Ecofriendly Ductile Cementitious Composite (Earthquake-Resistant Concrete or EDCC), structural ...

A pan-Canadian team has developed a new way to quickly find personalized treatments for young cancer patients, by growing their tumours in chicken eggs and analyzing their proteins. A pan-Canadian ...

A simple polystyrene cover could help cool beehives during heat waves, preventing a grim outcome for male bees. Sorry, bees do what now? When male bees, or drones ...

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 ...

The most popular ADHD-related content on TikTok often does not match mental health professionals’ views, potentially influencing how young adults perceive the disorder, a new University of B.C. study ...

According to nationally-representative surveys in the United States, hundreds of thousands of straight-identified men have had sex with other men. In the new book Still Straight: Sexual Flexibility ...

Micro- and nanoplastics are in our food, water and the air we breathe. They are showing up in our bodies, from testicles to brain matter. UBC researchers have developed a low-cost, portable tool to ...

Does money buy happiness? New research from a multinational UBC psychology study suggests that it can—but what you spend it on matters, depending on where you live. Happiness from spending varies ...