An international team led by Canadian astronomers has found a galaxy cluster blazing with hot gas just 1.4 billion years ...

Students who have been approved by Science Advising for “deferred standing” status in a course are expected to sit at the first scheduled time for a make-up exam. As soon as you have been approved for ...

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 ...

A “four-eyed” fish that sees simultaneously above and below the water line has offered up a dramatic example of how gene expression allows organisms to adapt to their environment. Gregory L. Owens, a ...

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 ...

Geologists studying rock samples from Baffin Island find lost fragment of continent. Photo: istock. Sifting through diamond exploration samples from Baffin Island, Canadian scientists have identified ...

Southern Resident killer whales swimming. Credit: Paul Cottrell, DFO. A chemical used in the production of toilet paper and 'forever chemicals' have been found in the bodies of orcas in B.C. , ...

Drs. Emiliano Di Cicco and Andrew Bateman (co-authors of the study) sampling wild Pacific salmon (Amy Romer). Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) – which is associated with kidney and liver damage in Chinook ...

Artist’s conception of Kepler telescope observing planets transiting a distant star (NASA Ames/W Stenzel). There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky way ...

Three types of granitoid rocks—tonalite, trondhjemite and granodiorite (TTG). Geoscientists have uncovered a missing link in the enigmatic story of how the continents developed—a revised origin story ...

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 ...