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Anticipating how plants will respond to rising temperatures is critical—not just for plants, but for whole ecosystems. How ...
Parents may be looking for fun ways for their kids to avoid a summer slump and keep vital math skills razor sharp after ...
Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, new University of British Columbia research ...
UBC’s departments of statistics and computer science have joined forces to create a new undergraduate, interdisciplinary data ...
Rapid bedside test predicts sepsis with over 90 per cent accuracy. May 26, 2025 Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster and ...
Hydrogen nano-clusters at low temperatures display ‘ superfluidity ’—a quantum state of frictionless flow only previously observed in helium.. The new research was published today in Science Advances ...
Readily available thermoelectric generators operating under modest temperature differences can power CO 2 conversion, according to a proof-of-concept study by chemists at the University of British ...
A modified compound taken from bloodroot, a wildflower native to North America, effectively fights multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in the test tube, according to a new study. The ...
Lavas from hotspots—whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland—likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth’s mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots published today ...
UBC researcher wins Canada’s premier mathematical sciences award. December 2, 2024 Dr. Leah Edelstein-Keshet, a pioneer in mathematical biology, has been awarded the 2025 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize by the ...