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UBC research could help astronauts eat well on future Mars missions

If space is the final frontier, it’s food that will get us there in good shape, and UBC researchers are making sure that our food will be up to the task.

Nov 9, 2022

Q&A on summer food safety with Siyun Wang

Q&A on summer food safety with Siyun Wang

Keep your hot foods hot and your cold foods cold, says Siyun Wang, an assistant professor of food safety engineering.

Jul 31, 2013

Strength in numbers when resisting forbidden fruit

Strength in numbers when resisting forbidden fruit

A new University of British Columbia study helps to explain how people become obsessed with forbidden pleasures.

Jun 5, 2013

When food porn holds no allure: the science behind satiety

New research from the University of British Columbia is shedding light on why enticing pictures of food affect us less when we’re full.

Jan 28, 2013

Taking the Earth’s pulse: UBC scientists unveil a new economic and environmental index

A growing world population, mixed with the threat of climate change and mounting financial problems, has prompted University of British Columbia researchers to measure the overall ‘health’ of 150 countries around the world.

Feb 20, 2012

The deliciousness investigators

Their homework: chocolates filled with honey caramel peanuts and galangal pecan praline. Learning doesn’t get more delicious than this.

Sep 1, 2011 - by By Lorraine Chan

Save the seeds, save ourselves

Native cultures and their plant seeds could be keys to addressing crises of food, medicine and energy, coping with climate change, and easing unprecedented rates of species extinction, according to Tirso Gonzales, an assistant professor of Indigenous Studies at UBC Okanagan.

Nov 5, 2009 - by By Bud Mortenson

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