A decade after the groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves, an international team, including researchers from the University of British Columbia, has observed the loudest black hole merger to ...

Five UBC Science professors have been named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their research in the fields of ...

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon ...

Raymond Anderson, a leading marine natural product chemist with both Chemistry and Earth and Ocean Sciences, has received the 2012 Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Medal. The CIC Medal is given ...

The Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver seeks a candidate who self-identifies as Black for a tenure-stream Assistant Professor of Teaching with an expected ...

The Thunderbird Reactor is a custom-made, bench-top-sized particle accelerator and electrochemical reactor built by an interdisciplinary team at The University of British Columbia. Using a small bench ...

It turns out those cellulose-based thickening agents found in common foods can be digested. Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown that our gut bacteria can feed on these large ...

A tray of healthy wild oysters. Amy M. Chan. Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada. The discovery serves as a reminder ...

Science Peer Academic Coaches help support students in achieving their unique academic goals. Students who work with an SPAC coach see lasting improvements to their study habits. Coaches work with you ...

A moose in North Park, Colorado. Forest P Hayes. The presence of humans and human infrastructure in U.S. national parks has lasting effects on the behaviours of the large animals that call them home, ...

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