University of British Columbia

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Co-leading institution on WorldParticle

For decades, simulating a physical process has meant building a dedicated program: one solver for water, another for cloth, another for how a protein folds. On Nov. 9, researchers at MIT and the University of British Columbia showed a single neural network that handles all of them.

Updated 2 days ago

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Lead institution on CHIME's cosmology program

A Canadian radio telescope has detected the faint glow of hydrogen gas emitted 9 billion years ago, using only its own observations for the first time. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), near Penticton, British Columbia, pulled the signal from 94 nights of data collected in 2019.

Updated Oct 28

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Co-lead of the POLO pathway research

For more than a century, scientists assumed the eye had no lymphatic drainage. In July 2026, teams at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto reported finding one at the back of the eye, a route they named the posterior ocular lymphatic outflow, or POLO pathway.

Updated Oct 22

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As of October 2026: Conducted and published the research

Sea spiders in the Salish Sea went nearly a century without a new species description. A University of British Columbia (UBC) master's student found two in a single field season of scuba diving.

Updated Oct 5