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Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) – which is associated with kidney and liver damage in Chinook salmon – is continually being transmitted between open-net salmon farms and wild juvenile Chinook salmon in ...
Readily available thermoelectric generators can power CO2 conversion, according to a proof-of-concept study by chemists at UBC.
An international team of astronomers, including University of British Columbia researchers, has announced the discovery of 62 new moons orbiting Saturn, catapulting the planet back into first place in ...
There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky way Galaxy, according to new estimates by University of British Columbia astronomers using data from NASA’s ...
In spring 2018, Dr. Philip Matthews spent a typical afternoon capturing dragonflies in the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) experimental ponds. Little did the zoologist know he was about to ...
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.
Sifting through diamond exploration samples from Baffin Island, Canadian scientists have identified a new remnant of the North Atlantic craton—an ancient part of Earth's continental crust. A chance ...
Our Solar System Features Eight Planets. NASA. The proposal refines current definitions that require planets to be round bodies which orbit our sun and have ‘cleared’ their neighbourhoods Planetary ...
Geoscientists have uncovered a missing link in the enigmatic story of how the continents developed—a revised origin story that doesn’t require the start of plate tectonics or any external factor to ...
UBC evolutionary ecologist Dr. Kayla King has been recognized as one of Canada’s top young researchers, earning an Arthur B. McDonald fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research ...
A chemical used in the production of toilet paper and 'forever chemicals' have been found in the bodies of orcas in B.C. , including the endangered southern resident killer whales.