Tag: UBC

As technology continues to advance, the likelihood of malevolent attacks and subsequent failures on society’s critical infrastructures increases. Blackouts, water ...

As the wind and rain pound the blades of a wind turbine, UBC Okanagan researchers carefully monitor screens, hundreds of ...

If you were ever to see sewage sludge up close, you might be hard-pressed to find any redeemable value; however, ...

For years, unrecycled plastic bottles have been dumped in landfills. Now, thanks to new research from UBC Okanagan, those bottles ...

When Doc Brown fed his DeLorean food scraps in Back to the Future as fuel, it seemed like crazy science ...

Fish aren’t impacted by borders, and neither are the subsidized fishing fleets that follow them. A recent UBC study quantified ...

Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new water treatment that removes “forever chemicals” from drinking water ...

Drifting along in ocean currents, jellyfish can be both predator and prey. They eat almost anything they can capture, and ...

Not all Chinook salmon are created equal, and this has a major impact on the energetics for southern resident killer ...

While residents in California are still dealing with damage from last month's floods—after years of devastating droughts—UBC Okanagan engineers are ...

Researchers at UBC’s Life Sciences Institute have identified a compound that shows early promise at halting infections from a range ...

Ever wonder what happens to the rubber tread that wears off a vehicle’s tires? New modelling by UBC Okanagan researchers ...

Engineers at UBC Okanagan have been collaborating with researchers from the University of Toronto to make a significant breakthrough in ...

Establishing a sense of place—letting visitors dig right into the soil and smell the earth where the grapes are grown ...

A team of University of British Columbia researchers working on developing oral insulin tablets as a replacement for daily insulin ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have discovered a key vulnerability across all major variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, ...

A new copper coating that kills bacteria quicker and in greater amounts than current formulations could soon be available for ...

In the quest to build smart skin that mimics the sensing capabilities of natural skin, ionic skins have shown significant ...

In a pair of world firsts, UBC scientists have 3D printed human testicular cells and identified promising early signs of ...

Researchers at UBC’s faculty of medicine have conducted the world’s first molecular-level structural analysis of the Omicron variant spike protein. ...