... is currently no way to predict a supervolcano eruption,” says Kennedy, a post-doctoral fellow at UBC and lead author on the paper. “But this new information explains for the first time what happens ...
... superconductors Damascelli's team experimented on are the purest samples currently available and were produced at UBC by physicists Doug Bonn, Ruixing Liang and Walter Hardy.
Part of the study was ...
... social spiders to stretch the laws of nature and reach enormous colony sizes, UBC zoologists have found. The findings, published in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
... -cultural data gathered at the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In the first study of its kind, UBC psychology researcher Jessica Tracy investigated how pride and shame are expressed across cultures ...
... fishers simply can't compete on the open market with large fleets. Rashid Sumaila, also of the UBC Fisheries Centre, estimates that governments worldwide subsidize $30-34 billion a year in fishing ...
... and daddy in English, papa in Italian and tata (grandpa) in Hungarian, for example," says Gervain from UBC Dept. of Psychology's Infant Studies Centre.
Scientists have studied how older children and ...
... s issue of the online journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"One person can make a difference," says UBC Assoc. Prof. Joe Henrich, who teaches in the departments of Psychology and Economics. " ...
... the individual's reputation or when religious thoughts are freshly activated in the person's mind, say UBC social psychologists Ara Norenzayan and Azim Shariff
Their paper "The Origin and Evolution ...
... Hinch in the Dept. of Forest Sciences and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, the UBC team has been studying Pacific salmon using biotelemetry trackers for a decade. They have ...
... the elementary steps by which atomic plasmas are born and grow.
Now, for the first time, UBC researchers have found a way to make ultracold plasmas out of molecules. Starting with a gaseous sample ...
... , humpback whales and their close relatives have relatively short dive times given their large body size," says UBC zoology PhD candidate Jeremy Goldbogen, whose study is featured on the cover of the ...
... eye cancer - uveal melanoma. Catherine Van Raamsdonk, an assistant professor of medical genetics in the UBC Faculty of Medicine and a team of researchers, have discovered a genetic mutation in a gene ...
... extremes of a wide range of attitudes, for which many women may view themselves as being somewhere in-between," says UBC sociology professor Richard Carpiano, a co-author of the study. "This ...
... used data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite, which includes members from UBC on its international team, as well as data from various ground-based instruments and surveys.
"We ...
... published in today's edition of the journal Nature, UBC researchers Pascal Audet, Michael Bostock, ... significant along the fault line," says Peacock, UBC Dean of Science and an expert in subduction zone ...
