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Jun 13, 2023

UBC students sampling water in Lost Lagoon.

UBC students wade in to Lost Lagoon’s water woes

UBC Science in Focus

Jun 13, 2023

Dr. Raymond Ng, Cathy McKay and Dr. Jonathan Simkin.

How AI is rewriting the story of cancer research

Could a deadly mushroom help battle cancer?

UBC chemists are working to unleash the cancer fighting…

UBC Science in Focus

Jun 1, 2020

Cracking the complex biology of cannabis

A year and a half after legalization, researchers are just…

The DNA of salmon heritage

Two UBC researchers are exploring the problem of dwindling salmon runs from…

UBC Science in Focus

Oct 25, 2019

Eco-friendly fashion could have huge environmental impact

The fashion industry is changing and…

UBC Science in Focus

Jan 23, 2020

Visualizing Vancouver’s biodiversity

A prototyped data science project at UBC could help city planners…

Arctic rising

Rapid environmental change is occurring in the Arctic as temperatures rise, but Canada…

UBC Science in Focus

Nov 17, 2023

Visual AI: The cat is out of the bag

A UBC computer scientist teamed up with Adobe and Apple to reconstruct 3D images and videos…

UBC Science in Focus

Oct 23, 2019

Rat race! How pest control can backfire

What if our approaches to pest control actually increase some…

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