A preclinical evaluation of a new ’dual-mode’ tracer could help surgeons plan prostate cancer procedures, and provide more ...

It turns out those cellulose-based thickening agents found in common foods can be digested.Researchers at the University of ...

Western tent caterpillars might not be on your mind every year, but during their peak outbreaks, they’re impossible to ignore ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada.

Researchers have identified the cause of the wasting disease that has killed billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska since 2013: a strain of the Vibrio pectenicida bacteria.

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, according to a new study.

Fish stocks are on the move due to climate change, impacting the sustainability of important fisheries.

Researchers have identified buried copper ore by testing the DNA of microbes in the surface soil. These ‘biological fingerprints’ can reveal copper-containing ore buried tens of metres below the earth ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute have mapped the genome of a microbe that is silently shaping the ecology of the planet's ...

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, new University of British Columbia research shows.

Some genes just don’t play fair.Researchers have uncovered a ‘selfish’ X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance in both sperm and eggs.