Housed within the Life Sciences Centre, the Life Sciences Institute is home more than 100 Principal Investigators and over 4,000 research trainees and staff. UBCs Life Sciences Institute (LSI) has b… [+2132 chars]
The outer skin of our planetthe critical zonestretches from treetops to the lower limits of groundwater. In this layer, interactions between rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms shape Earth's… [+2277 chars]
The launch of SpaceX's next cargo mission has been pushed back at least two more weeks, to no earlier than July 11. The mission, called CRS-25, will send a robotic SpaceX Dragon capsule toward the… [+1902 chars]
NASA's Voyager 1 team is trying to work out why the spacecraft appears to be confused about its location in space, but the mission's distance from Earth makes solving the issue challenging. The Voya… [+2502 chars]
One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments was struck by a micrometeoroid and while it has been damaged, NASA says it’s not cause for alarm and the telescope is still on schedule… [+3349 chars]
A group of researchers from CONICET and the University of Utah demonstrated that during the time of the first dinosaurs, variations in the diversity and abundance of the plant and vertebrate animal s… [+3952 chars]
Around 13,200 years ago, a roving male mastodon died in a bloody mating-season battle with a rival in what today is northeast Indiana, nearly 100 miles from his home territory, according to the first… [+7716 chars]
A mirror world parallel universe of particles that interact with our world only via gravity may ... [+] solve the 'Hubble constant' problem is cosmology. getty Is there really an unseen mirror worl… [+7407 chars]
Artificial cells have been engineered to mimic the natural characteristics of biological cells in a new study from Imperial College London. Scientists from the Departments of Chemical Engineering an… [+3766 chars]
A new joint study by Southwest Research Institute and Sandia National Laboratories examines the differences in oxide film growth on additively manufactured (AM) metals and wrought stainless steel in … [+3413 chars]
University of Minnesota Associate Professor Bharat Jalan and his students discovered that the true dielectric constant of their strontium titanate films exceeds 25,000the highest ever measured for th… [+4580 chars]
By analyzing the data from ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and elsewhere, have investigated X-ray intraday … [+3884 chars]
