Here’s a look back at some of the year’s biggest highlights for the UBC Vancouver Thunderbirds and UBC Okanagan Heat.

If you’ve noticed more e-bikes zipping past you on Metro Vancouver’s off-street paths, you’re not alone. UBC researchers have found that e-bike use has skyrocketed in the past four years. In 2019, ...

Every time UBC glassblower Brian Ditchburn sees a pink tricycle, he remembers his daughter, Kaelin: he never got the chance to teach her how to ride a bike. Grief hits at odd moments, he says, and ...

Conservatives and liberals agree on more than you might think—at least when it comes to saving nature. A new UBC Psychology study has found that, no matter their political stripe, people value nature ...

NeurIPS, one of the leading conferences in machine learning and artificial intelligence research, kicks off in Vancouver this week. UBC experts, including researchers presenting new papers at the ...

The report provides insights into food price trends, affordability challenges and the broader forces shaping Canada’s food ...

Plastic pollution occurs in every ecosystem on the planet and lingers for decades. Could insects be part of the solution? Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined ...

What if the way you tap your fingers or bounce your leg makes someone nearby want to flee the room—or worse? New UBC Psychology research published in PLOS ONE sheds light on misokinesia, a ...

When Dr. Michelle Tseng first learned she had been awarded a $1-million Wall Fellowship to support her research on butterflies and biodiversity in British Columbia, her immediate reaction was ...

Could the fungal apocalypse of The Last of Us have roots in reality? A new UBC study shows that climate warming can potentially make bacterial and fungal infections deadlier for cold-blooded animals ...

UBC researchers fed mealworms ground-up face masks mixed with bran and found that the bugs excreted a small fraction of the microplastics consumed. For Dr. Paul Onkundi Nyangaresi, a postdoctoral ...