To unravel the nature of the superconducting symmetry of the enigmatic 5f heavy-fermion UBe_{13}, the pressure dependence of the upper critical field and of the normal state are studied up to 10 GPa. Remarkably, the pressure evolution of the anomalous H_{c2}(T,P) over the entire pressure range up to 5.9 GPa can be successfully explained by the gradual admixture of a field-pressure-induced E_{u} component in an A_{1u} spin-triplet ground state. This result provides strong evidence for parallel-spin pairing in UBe_{13}, which is also supported by the recently observed fully gapped excitation spectrum at ambient pressure. Moreover, we have also found a novel non-Fermi-liquid behavior of the resistivity, ρ(T)∼T^{n} (n≲1), which disappears with the collapse of the negative magnetoresistance behavior and the existence of a superconducting ground state around P=6  GPa, suggesting a close interplay between Kondo scattering and superconductivity.

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