A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

Dr. Curtis Suttle has ben awarded the Jacob Biely Research Prize and Dr. Jess McIver has received the Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research. Two of the university’s premier research ...

More than 1,000 high school students and teachers from across B.C. will participate in the 48th annual UBC Physics Olympics this weekend.

Sponsored by the Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Fund in partnership with the UBC Science CEDAR program, UBC faculty, staff and students are invited to join guest speaker Dr. Sweeney Windchief for ...

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 ...

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, ...

Large numbers of fish will disappear from the tropics by 2050, finds a new University of Britsh Columbia study that examined the impact of climate change on fish stocks. The study identified ocean ...

Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new ...

UBC Science researchers have received $10.5 million in funding from Genome Canada and international partners to create the first reference genome of the sunflower family – work that will pinpoint ...

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 ...

This annual fair is the only time that the Science specializations come together at the same time to connect with first year Science students and answer your questions. Stop in at each department's ...