The presence of humans and human infrastructure in U.S. national parks has lasting effects on the behaviours of the large ...

As climate change intensifies across the global ocean, fish stocks are shifting their distributions in search of suitable ...

It turns out colour isn’t just a fashion statement for guppies. According to a new University of British Columbia study, the more orange the male guppy, the more virile it is.

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, new University of British Columbia research shows.

Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster and more accurately than existing methods.

Our thoughts are with the Filipino community and everyone affected by the tragedy in Vancouver. Supports are available for UBC students, faculty and staff.

Dr. Mark MacLachlan, Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Materials and the new Dean of Science at UBC, discusses his path from small town-B.C. to UBC, his love of Hawaiian shirts, and the ...

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human pandemic, was seven months, and Canada came in last, a new study has found.

Sorry, Jupiter: Saturn has left its former rival in the dust with a new total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets combined.

Hydrogen nano-clusters at low temperatures display ‘superfluidity’—a quantum state of frictionless flow only previously observed in helium.

You’re invited!Join your fellow Science students and Dean Mark MacLachlan for some hot chocolate, poetry and songs on science topics. Bring a friend and enjoy the creativity of your peers!UBC Science ...

I am pleased to announce the extension of the appointment of Dr. Mark MacLachlan, Dean pro tem, for the Faculty of Science.