Plants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to produce ...

Quantum materials, astronomy, and life sciences research at UBC got a major boost with the latest round of Canada Foundation ...

For the first time in the wild, researchers have shown plant populations can evolve quickly enough to rebound from extreme ...

A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

A sweeping new study of the 2021 heat wave reveals offers crucial insight into how climate extremes reshape ecosystems.

UBC recognizes six Science faculty members for research excellence, with two of the university's top prizes awarded to Dr.

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 chemical vital to the self-supporting nature of land plants--and thought unique to them--has been found in marine algae by a team of researchers including scientists at UBC and Stanford University.

UBC mathematician Dong Li has been awarded the university’s Charles A McDowell award for excellence in pure or applied scientific research by a young faculty member. Li’s research focuses on the ...

Anti-inflammatory agents developed by UBC microbiologist Robert Hancock, used in combination with anti-malarial drugs, have been shown to boost survival rates of severe malaria by as much as 50 per ...