Gay, lesbian and bisexual Canadians experience higher rates of anxiety and mood disorders than other Canadians. A recently published study from UBC has given researchers a real sense of the prevalence rates in Canada.
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Have your parents every convinced you to have that heavy winter coat because “the cold will make you sick?” Have they also told you that drinking alcohol kills your brains cells? We’ve all heard these claim — or similar ones — before. They are myths.
Now that you’ve tried our fact vs. myth quiz, did you do as well as you thought? Still confused about a few of the questions? The Great Wall is not visible from space, vaccines don't cause autism and bats can see.
Have you taken a walk around the Nest at lunch lately? Or seen the mountain of containers that pile up at the waste sorting stations? The AMS sells 1.5 million disposable containers annually and UBC uses 370,000 compostable containers annually.
Sajjan, the Minister of National Defence, announced a $1.5-million fund, from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation that will be used for scientific research and infrastructure and will go to 14 projects at UBC.
Dr. Mina Hoorfar, a professor in the School of Engineering at UBC Okanagan, along with PhD student Mohammad Paknahad have developed a microfluid breath analyzer that can detect THC in a person’s breath
While there is no lack of research demonstrating the positive and calming effects of interacting with pets for humans and overworked students, Coren noticed that his dogs were not always enjoying the interaction.
The program started four years ago, challenging grade 12 students at Gladstone Secondary to represent the cardiovascular system in a creative art project. Since then, the program has expanded to various secondary schools in Vancouver and Surrey.
A UBC psychology associate professor found that the rate of re-arrest for those who used psychedelic drugs was significantly lower than that of those who did not. Each participant in the study had a history of substance abuse.
The inaugural competition, aptly named Hatching Health, was an overwhelming success — one of the winning projects included an innovative braking mechanism for mobility devices designed to minimize the risk of falling for seniors.
Kunimoto graduated yesterday amidst a flurry of excitement after she spotted four new planets by studying information from NASA's Kepler mission — an initiative with the goal of finding Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe
Do people keep bringing up NASA's Juno spacecraft in small talk and leave you looking foolish because you didn't know Jupiter was a planet? We have you covered with Small Talk Science: everything you need to know about Juno so you don't look dumb.
The virus tricks the bacteria’s security guard into letting it in, then hands the guard a note of all of the virus’s competition and tells the security guard not to let them in, eliminating any competition the virus would have.
Did you know President Ono got his start in academia as a scientist. We chatted with President Ono about his interest in science, the future of research at UBC and Star Trek. Check out the condensed interview here.
We all have biases, whether they are implicit or explicit. New research from UBC showed that it is possible to reduce racial bias in older children by telling them positive stories of marginalizes groups.