Most Recent Stories
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New deep diamond and barium minerals named after UBC researchers
Two newly identified minerals—one from a deep Earth diamond—offer rare insights into the planet’s interior and honour UBC researchers and their legacies.
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Researchers ask us to rethink the ways we see and study the Arctic
by Drs. Candis Callison, Adrian Howkins, Élise Devoie and Megan Bailey.
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B.C. is moving millions of frogs for construction—no one knows if they’re surviving
The study finds that frogs and salamanders are moved by the millions, along with smaller numbers of snakes and other reptiles, to clear the way for pipelines, culverts and other development.
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Genomic test co-invented by UBC researchers can help millions of breast cancer patients safely avoid chemotherapy
A clinical trial of more than 4,400 patients—two decades in the making—has now confirmed the test works.
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How UBC-trained food scientists are advancing food and beverage manufacturing in Canada
Pushing the economy forward: Together with industry, UBC graduates are turning research into high-demand food and beverage products.
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‘Demonized, called hysterical’: the rise of witchcraft retreats where US women go to defy man and church
The Guardian
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Scientist with Huntington’s gene dedicates life to curing fatal disease he’ll one day develop
CBC
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Meet the ‘hit doctor’: Inside an informal network of drug users trying to stay alive
CBC
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How to fish better
The New York Times




















