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  • How camera-equipped homing pigeons could improve robotic vision in flight

    How camera-equipped homing pigeons could improve robotic vision in flight

    Researchers hand-sewed custom falconry-style hoods and miniature backpacks for pigeons, revealing unexpected eye movements that could help inspire smarter autonomous drones.

  • UBC research shows hearing persists at end of life

    UBC research shows hearing persists at end of life

    Hearing is widely thought to be the last sense to go in the dying process. Now UBC researchers have evidence that some people may still be able to hear while in an unresponsive state at the end of their life.

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  • New deep diamond and barium minerals named after UBC researchers

  • B.C. is moving millions of frogs for construction—no one knows if they’re surviving

  • Some early herders didn’t quit fishing and foraging for a millennium after first keeping livestock

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    New tool maps public land with potential for hundreds of thousands of affordable homes in B.C.

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