Industrial fishing fleets have doubled the distance they travel to fishing grounds since 1950 but catch only a third of what they did 65 years ago per kilometre travelled, a new study has fo... Read more
UBC researchers have found a cheap, sustainable way to build a solar cell using bacteria that convert light to energy. Their cell generated a current stronger than any previously recorded fr... Read more
A new study shows that a single corporation has registered nearly half of all existing gene patents from marine organisms A single corporation has registered nearly half of all existing pate... Read more
UBC computer scientists have turned Amazon Alexa into a tool for software engineers, tasking the virtual assistant to take care of mundane programming tasks, helping increase productivity an... Read more
A Vancouver-based research team led by Canada’s most cited neuroscientist, Dr. Patrick McGeer, has successfully carried out studies suggesting that, if started early enough, a daily regimen... Read more
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found a better way to identify unwanted animal products in ground beef. Food science students led by professor Xiaonan Lu used a laser-... Read more
A new seismic-resistant, fibre-reinforced concrete developed at the University of British Columbia will see its first real-life application this fall as part of the seismic retrofit of a Van... Read more
For many years, engineers have sought to create a special kind of surface: one that can both repel and absorb liquids, and whose ability to do so — its “wetting behavior” — can be quickly an... Read more
Inexpensive and tiny devices inspect water quality in the distribution system Researchers at UBC’s Okanagan campus have designed a tiny device —built using a 3D printer—that can monitor drin... Read more
3-D shape acquisition using water displacement as the shape sensor for the reconstruction of complex objects A global team of computer scientists and engineers have developed an innovative t... Read more
Genomic Sequencing Could Become Household Term with New Hand-Held Device Within five years, consumers may begin using a device smaller than a flip phone to monitor the air, test their food o... Read more
Mathematical model of a TARDIS takes the ‘fiction’ out of science fiction After some serious number crunching, a UBC researcher has come up with a mathematical model for a viable... Read more
The system consists of tanks of fibre membranes that catch and hold contaminants—dirt, organic particles, bacteria and viruses—while letting water filter through. A community of beneficial b... Read more
Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your pocket, or an artificial skin that can sense your body’s movements and vital signs. A new, inexpensive senso... Read more
The ancient Japanese art of flower arranging was the inspiration for a groundbreaking technique to create tiny “artificial brains” that could be used to develop personalized cancer treatment... Read more