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Science section's goal is to inform and educate the UBC community about science and technology that is relevant to UBC. We aim to publish stories that have strong evidence and science to ensure the public is well — and correctly — informed.
Deep in the basement of the Life Science Centre, in the first-year medical school lab full of body bags and cadavers lives the anatomy visualization table — a giant iPad like device stuffed full of medical data. jkrfhjskdhfjksfhsdkjf
What is the right way to roll your toilet paper — in front or behind? Science has yet to answer that question but new research out of UBC’s department of mechanical engineering does wipe away some of the mystery behind the science of toilet paper.
We are on our phone all of the time so you might as well be doing something productive with your screen time (and no, Tinder doesn't count). These are our recommendations for the apps you need this term. What did we miss, what's your favourite?
The team launched the boat from Newfoundland and was headed towards Ireland. It doesn't, however, look like Ada will complete the journey. The boat likely suffered a mechanical failure on Monday evening and is unable to turn.
Krebs, who has students “leave the classroom in tears,” produced a series of not boring but still education videos about anatomy for struggling UBC med students that feature a “nerd-chic” professor, a violinists, a Monty Python animation and tea.
You know the type — unmotivated, lazy, no work ethic, stoner. Now there might be some evidence to support the stoner stereotype, at least in rats. UBC research showed that rats who were under the influence of THC were "cognitively lazy."
The published the building's frame and exterior are not yet complete, which means those wishing to rubberneck still have the opportunity to witness the final structural elements of the world's largest wooden building being placed.
Here in Vancouver weed culture is ubiquitous and university gives students the freedom to experiment with drugs. Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit substance at Canadian universities. How safe is it?
Researchers at UBC and the Paul Scherrer Institute have developed a painless, minimally invasive and inexpensive microneedle drug monitoring system that could potentially replace needles used for blood draws and vaccines.
UBC engineering physics students spend their summer building autonomous robots to compete in the program's annual competition (it's also their final exam for the course). The second year students had five weeks to build a robot with their teams.
UBC Forestry professor Suzanne W Simard, who studies forest ecology and the relationship between trees and microbes, was featured in Radiolab's (a described podcast about "curiosity") newest episode From Tree to Shining Tree. She talks about her re
Why are these Pokémon Go players falling off cliffs, getting hit by cars and jumping onto SkyTrain tracks? What can psychology tell us about the game and its players? A pair of UBC Psychology professors have some ideas.
Vancouver has some lessons to learn when it comes to dealing with hot weather. UBC research published, in Environmental Health Perspectives, shows a connection between hot weather in Vancouver and an increase in mortality.