According to UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning, Canada has been building less social housing even though homelessness is on the rise.
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A new study led by UBC psychology professor Rebecca Todd has found that a certain genetic variation may influence how we perceive emotional information.
Philosophy professor Paul Russell received a $12 million grant to study morality and free will from a Swedish research group.
When a friend told me about a psych study that would pay you to drink beer and gamble for two hours, I thought it was too good to be true.
The research showed that the volume of glaciers in Western Canada will decrease by 70 per cent over the next 85 years.
A UBC study is giving students a chance to engage in two hours of gambling and beer drinking -- and get paid for it.
A UBC study found that, in some cases, rude sale staff can actually increase a customer's desire to purchase a product.
James Rupert, who was charged with secretly observing and recording subjects of a study in June 2014, pled guilty to videotaping four women who were using a changing room for one of his studies.
A study by Sauder professor Ning Nan found that student-led organizing through social media is especially powerful in times of crisis.
A new UBC-O study shows that people who have not committed crimes can still be led to admitting that they had by implanting false memories.
Researcher Haakon Nygaard is conducting a study to see if saracatinib, a drug formerly used to treat cancer, can be repurposed for Alzheimer's treatment.
A recent UBC study showshow a brief exposure to diesel exhaust can create significant alterations within a person’s DNA methylation.
A UBC psychology study suggests that limiting the number of times you check your email can reduce stress.
A team of UBC researchers is launching a specialized telescope from Antarctica to study the expansion of the primordial universe.