A decade after the groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves, an international team, including researchers from the University of British Columbia, has observed the loudest black hole merger to ...

Five UBC Science professors have been named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their research in the fields of ...

6 credits of communication coursework must be completed before promotion to 4th year class standing View required courses in the UBC Academic Calendar Learn more about your eligibility to take English ...

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 ...

We honour xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) on whose ancestral, unceded territory UBC Vancouver is situated. UBC Science is committed to building meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples so we can ...

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon ...

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 ...

Solve a real-world science case together with your friends and compete against others for prizes.

UBC's First-Year Seminar in Science offers a small-class experience where you will learn about what science is and how it is done. Students learn to develop and analyze arguments, read scientific ...

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 ...

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