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1.7 million That’s how many people are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) each year worldwide – 1.7 million people condemned to lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) or who risk developing fatal AIDS. Out of the 37.9 million people living with HIV (PLWH), 22.3 million have access to ART, allowing them to have an almost … Read more
New UBC research suggests restoring habitat may not be enough to save threatened woodland caribou—an iconic animal that’s a major part of boreal forests in North America and a key part of the culture and economy of many Indigenous peoples in Canada. Caribou populations have declined rapidly in recent decades across much of western Canada, … Read more
The study may help researchers better understand the evolution of colour vision in the animal kingdom. UQ Queensland Brain Institute’s Professor Justin Marshall said mantis shrimp have the most complex visual system of any living animal. “Mantis shrimp have four times as many colour receptors as we humans do: we have three – red, green, and … Read more
Air pollution – even at levels below national and international air quality guidelines – is associated with an increased risk of deaths in Canada, according to new UBC research. The study, published in a Health Effects Institute (HEI) report, is the largest and most comprehensive so far to look at the relationship between air pollution … Read more
Understanding how earthquakes occur is one of the main open questions in the field of seismology. Decades of research have not been enough to establish a model to predict earthquake’s behaviour neither to explain the systematic variation of the properties of their seismic rupture observed according to the depth where they initiate. This situation has … Read more
In collaboration with researchers at the universities of Münster and Exeter, Oxford’ scientists have created a first-of-a-kind electro-optical device which bridges the fields of optical and electronic computing. This provides an elegant solution to achieving faster and more energy efficient memories and processors. Computing at the speed of light has been an enticing but elusive … Read more
Perovskite nanocrystals hold promise for improving a wide variety of optoelectronic devices – from lasers to light emitting diodes (LEDs) – but problems with their durability still limit the material’s broad commercial use. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a novel approach aimed at addressing the material’s durability problem: encasing the perovskite … Read more
Young fish can be drawn to degraded coral reefs by loudspeakers playing the sounds of healthy reefs, according to new research published today in Nature Communications. An international team of scientists from the UK’s University of Exeter and University of Bristol, and Australia’s James Cook University and Australian Institute of Marine Science, say this “acoustic enrichment” … Read more
UBC Vancouver is ditching single-use coffee cups and plastic food ware, and encouraging students, faculty and staff to choose reusable options such as their own mugs, water bottles and cutlery instead. The move is part of UBC’s Zero Waste Food Ware Strategy—adopted in June 2019—aimed at keeping as many single-use coffee cups, plastic straws, bags … Read more
As smoke haze hangs over Sydney, a leading environmental health expert warns toxic air from extreme bushfires, exacerbated by very dry conditions due to climate change, is a growing public health emergency. Professor Sotiris Vardoulakis, from The Australian National University (ANU), says breathing in fine particles from bushfires has serious health effects. He also says … Read more