Close to five million smuggled seahorses worth an estimated CAD$29 million were seized by authorities over a 10-year span, ...

Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster and more ...

Drosophila testacea on the gills of a mushroom. Crawdaunt, Wikipedia Common. Some genes just don’t play fair. Researchers have uncovered a ‘selfish’ X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea ...

UBC researchers Dr. Changqing Wang and Maggie (Wei Jen) Ma A new approach to drug design can deliver medicine directly to the gut in mice at significantly lower doses than current inflammatory bowel ...

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.

Experimental apparatus and laser used by researchers at the University of British Columbia, RIKEN and Kanazawa University to demonstrate superfluidity in hydrogen (Chie Nakayama, University of British ...

Dr. Abhishek Soni adjusts a CO2 electrolyzer powered by thermoelectric generators. Credit: Alex Walls, UBC Media Relations. Readily available thermoelectric generators operating under modest ...

UBC evolutionary ecologist Dr. Kayla King has been recognized as one of Canada’s top young researchers, earning an Arthur B. McDonald fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research ...

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 ...

Horse-fly sideview. Wikimedia Commons. Darwin was puzzled by cooperation in nature—it ran directly against natural selection and the notion of survival of the fittest. But over the past decades, ...