Explore more Articles in

Lifestyle

Framework for rocket development and test launches in PH to be established through new PhilSA agreement

Manila, Philippines | March 5, 2026 — The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA), together with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), Ascend International Gateway, Inc., and Republic of Korea’s (ROK) Perigee Aerospace, Inc. signed a Memorandum of...

UP study identifies opportunities and challenges for advanced DNA technology in SEA Forensics

Massively parallel sequencing (MPS) has transformed forensic DNA analysis by allowing scientists to examine multiple DNA markers at the same time and in much greater detail than older methods. Even so, MPS is still not widely used in Southeast Asian countries. Researchers from...

Ateneo spearheads int’l cooperation  for future light-based electronics

Photonics—the next generation of electronics technology, which uses light instead of electricity—is gaining a foothold in the Philippines thanks to the Ateneo de Manila University’s Research on Optical and Electronic Systems (ROSES) Laboratory, the country’s first and only facility dedicated to locally designing...

Submarine volcanoes, faults, region for potential renewable energy, among others surveyed in three PH seas

QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES — Submarine volcanoes, active faults, internal waves, and a region with potential for renewable energy were surveyed in the Sulu Sea, Celebes Sea, and southern Philippine Sea, reported by scientists from the UP Marine Science Institute.  Dr. Fernando Siringan and Dr....

Baring the ‘silent violence’ of Philippine jails

Conversations about Philippine jail congestion often begin and end with statistics: thousands of case backlogs, cells built for 50 crammed with 200 bodies, and facilities straining at 300 to 400 percent beyond capacity. Yet these numbers barely capture the everyday human cost of...

UP study traces extreme waves through ancient coastal boulders

Large boulders, some weighing as much as a large truck, are scattered along the rocky coastline of Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte. These enormous boulders, which sit on an uplifted reef platform far from the sea, are not random. They are fragments of an ancient coral...

Random Pickings

Robot, know thyself; machines get more self-aware

NEW YORK (AP)—Forget dreaming of electric sheep. Robots first need to figure out how to imagine themselves. One New York robot has done just that....

MacBook Neo pre-orders go live as Beyond the Box engineers a launch built around experience 

Beyond the Box is rolling out the MacBook Neo with café takeovers, influencer meetups, and a pre-order bundle worth over ₱10,000. The rollout reflects...

Ateneo machine learning lab opens doors to industry partners, collaborators

Machine learning is one of today’s most important innovations because it allows computers to learn complex and subtle patterns that even the best human...

Sol y Viento’s twin offerings for summer fun & frolic

The heat, the traffic, and a few days of weekend free time are good enough reasons to head for the south of Manila. Here, with...