Science section's goal is to inform and educate the UBC community about science and technology that is relevant to UBC. We aim to publish stories that have strong evidence and science to ensure the public is well — and correctly — informed.
Deep in the basement of the Life Science Centre, in the first-year medical school lab full of body bags and cadavers lives the anatomy visualization table — a giant iPad like device stuffed full of medical data. jkrfhjskdhfjksfhsdkjf
What is the right way to roll your toilet paper — in front or behind? Science has yet to answer that question but new research out of UBC’s department of mechanical engineering does wipe away some of the mystery behind the science of toilet paper.
We are on our phone all of the time so you might as well be doing something productive with your screen time (and no, Tinder doesn't count). These are our recommendations for the apps you need this term. What did we miss, what's your favourite?
"Even the positive labels — like being so-called gifted or intelligent — prevents you from being able to act or feel a certain way because you are always expected to be a perfect student. We wanted to find a way to combat that."
Two incoming UBC students — Lasya Vankayala and Noah Tajwar — have won Canada’s largest undergraduate STEM scholarship. The Schulich Leadership Scholarship was founded in 2012 with a $100 million dollar donation.
The team launched the boat from Newfoundland and was headed towards Ireland. It doesn't, however, look like Ada will complete the journey. The boat likely suffered a mechanical failure on Monday evening and is unable to turn.
Krebs, who has students “leave the classroom in tears,” produced a series of not boring but still education videos about anatomy for struggling UBC med students that feature a “nerd-chic” professor, a violinists, a Monty Python animation and tea.
You know the type — unmotivated, lazy, no work ethic, stoner. Now there might be some evidence to support the stoner stereotype, at least in rats. UBC research showed that rats who were under the influence of THC were "cognitively lazy."
The published the building's frame and exterior are not yet complete, which means those wishing to rubberneck still have the opportunity to witness the final structural elements of the world's largest wooden building being placed.
UBC engineering physics students spend their summer building autonomous robots to compete in the program's annual competition (it's also their final exam for the course). The second year students had five weeks to build a robot with their teams.
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
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.