LOS BAŇOS, Laguna -- A new electronic sensor device was developed by the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech), which could instantly measure quality of freshness of cacao beans.The new technology project, funded by the Philippine Council for Agriculture,... Read More
MANILA --All elementary and secondary teachers nationwide are invited to submit proposals for the Department of Science and Technology - Science Education Institute's (DOST-SEI) search for the most innovative teaching materials until November 10.The contest, dubbed as "Innobox", aims to encourage... Read More
WASHINGTON--Space travel triggers genetic 'fireworks' - an increase in the process of turning genes on and off, a NASA study has found.When retired astronaut Scott Kelly returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth in March 2016, NASA's Twins Study researchers collected samples from... Read More
LOS ANGELES --Scientists of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have just come up with a new model to help allocate scarce observing time to the most promising candidate planets beyond our solar system that might support life, according to a new research published this week... Read More
MANILA --The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) celebrated the World Space Week (WSW) via a two-day event organized by the Science Education Institute (SEI) in Cebu City.Every October 4-10, the WSW is being observed to gather students and teachers to learn more about space science and its... Read More
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- The province of Kalinga will host the 2017 Regional Science and Technology Week (RSTW) celebration themed “Science for the People 2017” from October 10 to 14. It is open to the public for free.Department of Science and Technology-Cordillera (DOST-CAR) Regional... Read More
TACLOBAN CITY-- The Philippine Science High School Eastern Visayas (PSHS-EV) campus is upbeat of garnering achievementsin the upcoming World Robot Olympiad (WRO) in Costa Rica on November 10-12.PSHS-EV campus director Reynaldo Garnace said on Tuesday that a team of student has made preparations to... Read More
CHANGCHUN -- Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in creating full-color emissive carbon dots (F-CDs), which brings them one step closer to developing a faster wireless communication channel that could be available in just six years.Light Fidelity, known as Li-Fi, uses visible light from LED... Read More
ADELAIDE -- US defense, aerospace and security giant Lockheed Martin on Friday revealed plans for a Mars lander and a base camp.Presenting during the final day of the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, South Australia, Lockheed Martin revealed its new Mars Ascent Descent... Read More
MANILA -- The Department of Science and Technology - Technology Application and Promotion Institute (DOST-TAPI) and the Land Bank of the Philipines launched the I-TECH Thursday afternoon, aiming to help Filipino inventors commercialize their products.Through the I-TECH (Innovation and Technology... Read More
TACLOBAN CITY-- Inventions to enhance local food processing, detecting potential bad posture, and computerized scoring of manual examinations have emerged as this year’s winners in the week-long Regional Invention Contest and Exhibit (RICE).Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Regional... Read More
SYDNEY -- A new study has revealed that a long extinct frog known as Beelzebufo Ampinga, which lived in Madagascar more than 68 million years ago, was a dinosaur killer.The claim stems from a study on the bite force of South American horned frogs, otherwise known as Pac-man frogs due to their... Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -- Animals neither too big nor too small but just the right size face a lower risk of extinction than those on both ends of the scale, an international research team has found.Their report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the... Read More
LOS ANGELES -- The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Cassini spacecraft was on final approach to Saturn as mission navigators confirmed that it was on course to dive into the planet's atmosphere on Friday."Final approach: the spacecraft is on course to dive into... Read More
ILOILO CITY -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the microfinance company Taytay sa Kauswagan Inc. (TSKI), and the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) have agreed to help entrepreneurs improve their competency.They inked a memorandum of agreement on their collaboration during... Read More
ILOILO CITY -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) on Tuesday recognized the best provincial and regional adopters of the Small Enterprises Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP) during the Regional Science and Technology Week on August 29-31.SETUP is DOST's nationwide program that aims to... Read More
DAVAO CITY – With the mounting complaints of flies and bad odor from poultry farms, a Davao inventor came up with a product that neutralizes odor and drives away house flies and crawling insects from poultry, piggery farms, markets, pet and animal feces and slaughterhouses.Virgilio Sangutan,... Read More
LOS ANGELES --The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s next Mars mission known as InSight, which is on track for a 2018 liftoff, will focus on examining the deep interior of Mars, the agency announced on Monday.The long form of InSight's name is Interior Exploration using... Read More
SYDNEY -- Scientists from around the world have called for the United Nations (UN) to take action to stop the proliferation of "killer robots."At the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Melbourne on Monday, technology leaders from around the world congregated at the event,... Read More
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14 -- Neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco, have discovered that the animal brain reinforces motor skills during deep sleep.In the study published in Nature Neuroscience, the researchers found that during non-rapid eye movement, or non-REM, sleep, slow... Read More
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