Researchers have found that high levels of salt kill fertilized coho salmon eggs, raising concerns about the use of road salt ...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University have co-developed a system that captures on video and barcodes the behavioral responses of zebrafish to chemical compounds on ...

UBC Science researchers have received $10.5 million in funding from Genome Canada and international partners to create the first reference genome of the sunflower family – work that will pinpoint ...

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 ...

Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia's already beleaguered northern abalone, according to the first study to provide direct experimental evidence that changing sea ...

UBC Science faculty members have been awarded close to $1.2 million in research funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The ten funded projects are led by researchers in the departments ...

Beaty Biodiversity Museum Director Wayne Maddison has uncovered 30 to 50 never-before-identified species of jumping spiders as part of a Conservation International expedition to Papua New Guinea. The ...

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 ...

Two UBC Science faculty members were among the 67 nominees for the 2010 YWCA Women of Distinction Awards honoured at a gala dinner last night. Mona Berciu, associate professor with the Department of ...

Two UBC Science researchers have received 2010 Sloan Research Fellowships, a US-based award that recognizes North America’s outstanding early career scientists, mathematicians and economists. Joshua ...

UBC botanists have placed seaweed in the underwater equivalent of a wind tunnel to get a better idea of how different types of algae withstand the onslaught of strong waves and currents. The findings, ...