Close to five million smuggled seahorses worth an estimated CAD$29 million were seized by authorities over a 10-year span, ...

Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster and more ...

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human pandemic, was seven months, and Canada came in last, a new study has found.

Sorry, Jupiter: Saturn has left its former rival in the dust with a new total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets combined. The International ...

Experimental apparatus and laser used by researchers at the University of British Columbia, RIKEN and Kanazawa University to demonstrate superfluidity in hydrogen (Chie Nakayama, University of British ...

Coho Spawning on the Salmon River. Credit: Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington. Researchers have found that high levels of salt kill fertilized coho salmon eggs, raising concerns about the ...

Dr. Abhishek Soni adjusts a CO2 electrolyzer powered by thermoelectric generators. Credit: Alex Walls, UBC Media Relations. Readily available thermoelectric generators operating under modest ...

UBC evolutionary ecologist Dr. Kayla King has been recognized as one of Canada’s top young researchers, earning an Arthur B. McDonald fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research ...

A modified compound taken from bloodroot, a wildflower native to North America, effectively fights multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in the test tube, according to a new study. The ...

Horse-fly sideview. Wikimedia Commons. Darwin was puzzled by cooperation in nature—it ran directly against natural selection and the notion of survival of the fittest. But over the past decades, ...

Our Solar System Features Eight Planets. NASA. The proposal refines current definitions that require planets to be round bodies which orbit our sun and have ‘cleared’ their neighbourhoods Planetary ...