A team of UBC researchers is launching a specialized telescope from Antarctica to study the expansion of the primordial universe.
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A UBC psychology study suggests that limiting the number of times you check your email can reduce stress.
A recent UBC study showshow a brief exposure to diesel exhaust can create significant alterations within a person’s DNA methylation.
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 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.
A study by Sauder professor Ning Nan found that student-led organizing through social media is especially powerful in times of crisis.
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 UBC study found that, in some cases, rude sale staff can actually increase a customer's desire to purchase a product.
A UBC study is giving students a chance to engage in two hours of gambling and beer drinking -- and get paid for it.
The research showed that the volume of glaciers in Western Canada will decrease by 70 per cent over the next 85 years.
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.
Philosophy professor Paul Russell received a $12 million grant to study morality and free will from a Swedish research group.
A new study led by UBC psychology professor Rebecca Todd has found that a certain genetic variation may influence how we perceive emotional information.
According to UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning, Canada has been building less social housing even though homelessness is on the rise.
“Food has reached a kind of cultural stature now that makes it seem like a real contribution to urban life to allow these food trucks. It’s really about food and what we think food does.”