The CHIME telescope has made its first standalone detection of hydrogen's ancient radio glow, paving the way for new studies of cosmic expansion.

Callipallene pilosuspedes, a species of sea spider newly discovered in the Salish Sea by UBC researchers. Photo credit: Cormac Toler-Scott. If you’re swimming in the Salish Sea late at night and feel ...

Representatives of the Lower Fraser Fisheries Alliance and UBC sign a memorandum of collaboration. UBC and the Lower Fraser Fisheries Alliance (LFFA) have signed a memorandum of collaboration to ...

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is celebrating 16 years of inspiring curiosity about the natural world, and we’d love to celebrate with you! We honour xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) on whose ancestral, ...

UBC researchers have identified the world’s largest marine virus--an unusually complex ‘mimi-like virus’ that infects an ecologically important and widespread planktonic predator. Cafeteria ...

A post-doctoral fellow with the Department of Zoology has conducted the first in-nature experiments that show environmental adaption accelerates the development of new species. "As far as advancing ...

Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world's coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers. In a study ...

The UBC President's Awards for Staff recognize staff across campus who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and excellence within the UBC Community. There are two types of President's Awards that ...

Three new Canada Research Chairs have been appointed at UBC Science, with an additional two renewed at the Faculty in the most recent round of Chair announcements. The new and renewed CRCs at UBC ...

A UBC researcher has turned up the first conclusive explanation for the origin of the Sharktooth Hill bonebed--a massive prehistoric marine mass grave in southern California. The Sharktooth Hill ...

UBC botanists have placed seaweed in the underwater equivalent of a wind tunnel to get a better idea of how different types of algae withstand the onslaught of strong waves and currents. The findings, ...