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

Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the UBC have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target ...

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.

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 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.

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human pandemic, was seven months, and Canada came in last, a new study has found.