Research Stories


Recent Research Stories From Across UBC

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AI in the law: How UBC researchers are helping to future-proof justice

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The Sentinels of Change Alliance are committed to collaborating within their team, as well as with community and non-profit groups. Photo credit: Clare Kiernan.


University News Breaking down research silos to understand a shifting Salish Sea

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UBC research associate Dr. Ross Jones in the lab where they are working to develop cell-based therapies from stem cells. Credit: Phillip Chin.


Stem cell engineering breakthrough paves way for next-generation living drugs

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Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot intracluster atmosphere (red), illustrating a large thermal reservoir of gas in the nascent cluster. (Credit: Lingxiao Yuan)


Earliest, hottest galaxy cluster gas on record could change our cosmological models

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Is your neighbourhood playable? New website breaks it down

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COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduces risk to pregnant women and baby

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 Dolphin with a pod of northern resident killer whales. Credit: University of British Columbia (A.Trites), Dalhousie University (S. Fortune), Hakai Institute (K. Holmes), Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (X. Cheng).


Orcas and dolphins seen hunting together for the first time

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Photo by Blake Wisz on Unsplash


How warming winters could reshape B.C.’s Christmas tree choices

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New research reveals decline in B.C. kindergarteners developmental health after pandemic

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A participant stands in UBC’s robotic balance platform, a research device designed to mimic and alter the forces involved in human standing balance. Credit: Sachi Wickramasinghe


UBC ‘body-swap’ robot helps reveal how the brain keeps us upright

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Photo by Nathaniel Yeo on Unsplash


UBC study shows good access to abortion pill in B.C., but gaps remain

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Want to be more persuasive? Talk with your hands, study finds

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We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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