Ubyssey Science

Nxylon — named after a blend of Nyx, the Greek goddess of night, with xylon, meaning wood — is a new material created by researchers from the UBC Faculty of Forestry that absorbs over 99 per cent of visible light. Read more here: ubyssey.ca/science/super-…

Earlier this year, UBC researchers from the Centre for Wildfire Coexistence released a study suggesting six interrelated strategies to help improve BC’s resilience against the impacts of wildfires. Read more here: ubyssey.ca/science/ubc-re…

In @UbysseyScience, Contributor Shobana Shanmugasamy wrote about a documentary made by UBC alum Dr. Karl Zimmerman that empowers communities to be heroes in their water stories. ubyssey.ca/science/water-…

Archaeologists in the Lower Mainland are reconstructing what the səl̓ilwətaɬ diet looked like prior to colonization to help understand the relationships between people, their territories and sustainability. Read more here: ubyssey.ca/science/tsleil…

Whether they have taken it or not, most UBC students have likely heard about the difficulty of MATH 100: Differential Calculus with Applications. Read more about how you can crack it here: ubyssey.ca/science/cracki…

"Once a vast expanse of water teeming with life, all that exists today of Semá:th Xo:tsa are hazy black and white photos of a lake no more. But that may change soon." Read more here: ubyssey.ca/science/propos…

Have you ever wanted to step into the shoes of a doctor saving lives in the ICU? Critical Care offers that experience — minus the stress of medical school. Read more here: ubyssey.ca/science/critic…

The UBC SPICE Lab published a report this year characterizing the educational experiences of over 68,000 BC students with disabilities and learning exceptionalities. Read more here: ubyssey.ca/science/spice-…

The UBC Body Donation program supports the learning of over 1,000 health care students every year, by extending learning off the pages of a textbook and into a hands-on learning experience. Read more here: ubyssey.ca/science/ubc-bo…

"Amid the stressful flurry of academic life, UBCO’s Building Academic Retention Through K9s (B.A.R.K.) program offers a potential solution: support dogs." ubyssey.ca/science/ubco-b…

UBC’s International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), a spinal research centre, is addressing barriers for Indigenous youth through the seed2STEM program. ubyssey.ca/science/indige…

Master’s student Clare Price is exploring how human-generated noise impacts our ability to connect to nature. The work is rooted in acoustic ecology, the study of the ecological components of the soundscapes that constantly surround us. ubyssey.ca/science/vancou…

As the sun sets, 2 UBC researchers set up an illuminated white sheet on the outskirts of Delta farmland. Hannah Anderson, a plant sciences masters student, explains that it’s a trap to attract moths, who play a bigger role in pollination than many think. ubyssey.ca/science/moths-…

A multigenerational team of four marine scientists successfully completed a grueling 4,800 km rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean called the “World’s Toughest Row”, coming in first place while raising awareness and $250,000+ for ocean conservation. ubyssey.ca/science/worlds…

When Vancouver freezes in January, we salt the roads. But, a study including UBC, SFU, BCIT, and citizen scientists finds that road salt kills young coho salmon. How can we safely de-ice roads without harming rivers? Read more here: ubyssey.ca/science/road-s…

Hi! Ubyssey Science has a writer working on a story about students who don't use smartphones, out of choice or necessity. Is anybody interested in participating in an interview about why you don't use a smartphone? DM or email science@ubyssey.ca !

Short for “love robots,” the LOVOTs Kiwi and Mango arrived at UBC from Japan in July 2023, and have since visited several care homes, conferences and Vancouver General Hospital. Read about how UBC researchers are using robots for elder care: ubyssey.ca/science/could-…

Linda PJ Lipsen opens her office cabinet and pulls out a file folder, containing a photo of a tiny piece of moss. It is one of almost a million specimens stored at the UBC herbarium, and each provides a window into history and climate change. Read here: ubyssey.ca/science/the-st…

One in 140 Canadians are living with IBD — among the highest incidences of this disease class in the world. Ubyssey science writer Sophia Russo spoke to experts to break down what we know about what causes IBD, and what we can do about it. ubyssey.ca/science/gut-fe…

UBC scholars are at the forefront of grappling with generative AI in the classroom. The Ubyssey spoke to instructors about how, in the absence of cohesive policy around ChatGPT, they're trying out new things and collaborating to share ideas. Read more: ubyssey.ca/science/chatgp…