Lessons from the unprecedented Stanley Park coyote attacks reveal why conflict happens—and what people can do to safely ...

To study how pigeons see while flying, UBC researchers hand-sewed custom falconry-style hoods and miniature backpacks to ...

Projects investigating food security, AI-driven chemistry, and cell interactions are among 80 newly funded research programs ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of UBC physicists and engineers have designed an experiment featuring a trough of flowing water to help bolster a 35-year-old theory proposed by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking. In 1974, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anti-inflammatory agents developed by UBC microbiologist Robert Hancock, used in combination with anti-malarial drugs, have been shown to boost survival rates of severe malaria by as much as 50 per ...

UBC has partnered with US-based Coursera to offer genetics, computer science and climate literacy courses online--bringing the university’s expertise within reach of anyone with Internet access.

The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study. Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it ...