Canada’s largest radio astronomy telescope, known as CHIME, is ready to start mapping space. CHIME—a collaboration among 50 Canadian scientists, including researchers from UBC—will study dark energy, fast radio bursts and radio pulsars.

Climate change could shrink the world’s fish by as much as 30 percent, UBC researchers say. Fish aren’t able to regulate their body temperatures and warming waters could alter their metabolism, leading to smaller bodies.

Pressed plants and flowers may sound quaint, but the UBC Herbarium’s DNA collection may be more important than ever. “It gives you a window into the past and answers to our future,” says curator Linda Jennings. A talk on botanical insecticides takes place in Victoria September 28.

A love of history drove physicist Alejandro Yoshizawa (BSc’09) to try his hand at documentary filmmaking, often about underrepresented communities. Now he wants to make a film about physicist and UBC alumnus Shuichi Kusaka, who worked with Oppenheimer. His latest film premieres on CBC September 30.

Symbiosis may be more violent that we thought. UBC researchers have discovered freshwater bacteria that live inside single-celled organisms and constantly “snatch” bacteria from their ‘hosts’, discarding them when they’re no longer useful.

UBC mineralogists have discovered it takes very specific pressure and temperature conditions to create Beluga sapphires, the rare gems which adorn Queen Elizabeth II’s ‘snowflake’ brooch. The research will help identify areas for gemstone exploration in the Arctic.