Research Stories


Recent Research Stories From Across UBC

The Power Game: People Want Power Over Others, Even If There’s Nothing to Gain

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Creating a Smarter City from Home

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The social psychologist’s guide to making people stay home

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Research challenges traditional methods used to analyze trees of life

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When crises collide: COVID-19 and overdose in the Downtown Eastside

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Aerial drones offer new perspective on resident killer whale behaviour

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When Leaders Show Humility, Workers Are Happier: Study

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B.C. wood fuel could cut coal power emissions by 85%

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How globalization stoked fear of disease during the Romantic era

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Why we need to live in social quilts, not echo chambers in times of COVID-19

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Geologists find lost fragment of ancient continent in Canada’s North

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Mastering the physics of racing cars

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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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