UBC Forestry professor Suzanne W Simard, who studies forest ecology and the relationship between trees and microbes, was featured in Radiolab's (a described podcast about "curiosity") newest episode From Tree to Shining Tree. She talks about her re
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Why are these Pokémon Go players falling off cliffs, getting hit by cars and jumping onto SkyTrain tracks? What can psychology tell us about the game and its players? A pair of UBC Psychology professors have some ideas.
Vancouver has some lessons to learn when it comes to dealing with hot weather. UBC research published, in Environmental Health Perspectives, shows a connection between hot weather in Vancouver and an increase in mortality.
Half of patients in the province diagnosed with depression who seek help from a physician are receiving inadequate care. The other half are receiving the minimum adequate treatment, according to a new UBC study.
There’s a lot we can learn from nature, after all it’s had 4.5 billion years to tweak and adjust, giving rise to the remarkable characteristics and extremely efficient processes we see in life forms today.
Starting this month, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC lifted a regulation barrier that will improve access to Suboxone, a drug that is used to treat opioid addiction. "The process is a thoughtful, evidence-based process.”
The dwarf planet — currently designated as 2015 RR245 — was found using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on Hawaii. The dwarf planet probably takes 700 years for it to orbit the sun.
We all have biases, whether they are implicit or explicit. New research from UBC showed that it is possible to reduce racial bias in older children by telling them positive stories of marginalizes groups.
Did you know President Ono got his start in academia as a scientist. We chatted with President Ono about his interest in science, the future of research at UBC and Star Trek. Check out the condensed interview here.
The virus tricks the bacteria’s security guard into letting it in, then hands the guard a note of all of the virus’s competition and tells the security guard not to let them in, eliminating any competition the virus would have.
Do people keep bringing up NASA's Juno spacecraft in small talk and leave you looking foolish because you didn't know Jupiter was a planet? We have you covered with Small Talk Science: everything you need to know about Juno so you don't look dumb.
Kunimoto graduated yesterday amidst a flurry of excitement after she spotted four new planets by studying information from NASA's Kepler mission — an initiative with the goal of finding Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe
The inaugural competition, aptly named Hatching Health, was an overwhelming success — one of the winning projects included an innovative braking mechanism for mobility devices designed to minimize the risk of falling for seniors.
A UBC psychology associate professor found that the rate of re-arrest for those who used psychedelic drugs was significantly lower than that of those who did not. Each participant in the study had a history of substance abuse.
The program started four years ago, challenging grade 12 students at Gladstone Secondary to represent the cardiovascular system in a creative art project. Since then, the program has expanded to various secondary schools in Vancouver and Surrey.