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News and events from the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia. Also on Bluesky at @science.ubc.ca
Vancouver, BC, Canada science.ubc.ca Joined March 2009
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Prairie to Pharmacy is about discovering the chemistry that Canada's plants produce and determining what it does, with the long-term goal of finding new medicines.

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science.ubc.ca How a common prairie plant could contain the key to new medicines A collaboration between University of Lethbridge and UBC researchers is exploring the anti-mitotic activity of metabolites made by the Prairie Crocus.
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“What makes this attack concerning is that an attacker doesn’t need to read the messages being exchanged,” said UBC computer scientist Dr. Aastha Mehta. @UBC_CS

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science.ubc.ca UBC researchers uncover new cyber threat to water and energy networks UBC researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure.
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“The trauma part of fire is very real,” says UBC mycologist Dr. @MonikaSFischer, whose lab tracks after-fire fungi. “But then the winter rains come and the fungi start fruiting, and it’s this beautiful burst of rainbow rebirth just months after. @UBCBotany
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news.mongabay.com As wildfires rage, Canadian researchers study the life that comes after The reporting and photography for this story was fully supported by a 2025-2026 grant from the Sitka Foundation and the Science Media Centre of Canada. Four of the five worst years recorded for...