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PHL Trade Mission Earns $23-M In Film Festival
The Philippine trade mission to the 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market (MIFA) held in June 2023 generated about...

By The Financial District
Aug 14, 20232 min read


Archipelago Labs Launches Tech Startups
Over the weekend, the first startup accelerator for tech startups launched its Demo Day, in which five selected start-ups presented their...

By Lito U. Gagni
Aug 14, 20233 min read


Saudi City Gets Dutch Aid To Grow Crops In The Desert
Saudi Arabia is teaming up with a Dutch greenhouse company to create "a synthetic climate” to make the desert bloom.

By The Financial District
Aug 9, 20231 min read


High Internet Cost Worries Persist Despite Digitalization Push
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. highlighted digitalization advancements in his recent second State of the Nation Address (SONA), but...

By The Financial District
Aug 9, 20234 min read


U.S. Scientists Make 2nd Fusion Ignition Breakthrough
US scientists have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time since December.

By The Financial District
Aug 8, 20231 min read


Meralco Eyes Nuke Power
The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) is teaming up with a US-based nuclear company pursuing its next-generation clean energy technologies.

By Lito U. Gagni
Aug 7, 20231 min read


Mekong Delta To Sink Below Sea Level By 2050
The Mekong Delta is under threat.

By The Financial District
Aug 2, 20232 min read


SoKor Team Creates Superconductor At Lab
A team of South Korean physicists claims to have created an elusive room-temperature/ambient-pressure superconducting material.

By The Financial District
Aug 1, 20231 min read


MIT Creates Diode That Cuts Energy Use In Computing
MIT scientists and colleagues have created a simple superconducting device that could transfer current through electronic devices much...

By The Financial District
Aug 1, 20231 min read


Florida Keys Reefs Bleach As Temperatures Rise
Some Florida Keys coral reefs are losing their color weeks earlier than normal this summer because of record-high water temperatures.

By The Financial District
Jul 29, 20232 min read


Student Reporting Causes Stanford Prexy To Quit
Within months of starting his undergraduate at Stanford University, 18-year-old Theo Baker was already on the trail of a story that would...

By The Financial District
Jul 27, 20231 min read


GOP Eats Climate Denial, Wants 1-T Trees Planted
As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a gas drilling site in Ohio to promote the House GOP plan to increase the production of energy from...

By The Financial District
Jul 27, 20231 min read


Princeton Prof Sees Lab Meat Beating Livestock Producers
Given that meat consumption continues to rise as countries become more affluent — with China the textbook example — a more efficient form...

By The Financial District
Jul 27, 20232 min read


ChatGPT Flunks Simple Math Problems: Study
High-profile AI chatbot ChatGPT performed worse on certain tasks in June than its March version, a Stanford University study found.

By The Financial District
Jul 24, 20231 min read


Sci-Fi Editor Slams AI: It Doubled My Workload
A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in...

By The Financial District
Jul 24, 20232 min read


U.S. Lawmakers Raise Budget Of National Science Foundation
Congressional spending panels delivered sharply different messages this week to the two biggest US federal research agencies as lawmakers...

By The Financial District
Jul 20, 20232 min read


Scientist: Expansion Of Universe Is Just A Mirage
For decades, scientists have discerned that the universe is not only expanding, but accelerating.

By The Financial District
Jul 19, 20232 min read


Chinese Scientists Leaving U.S. In Droves
Facing an increasingly suspicious research climate, a growing number of Chinese scientists are leaving the US for positions abroad.

By The Financial District
Jul 19, 20232 min read


Genetically Modified Poplar Cuts GHG
Every year, paper mills generate millions of tons of chemical waste and more than 150 million tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

By The Financial District
Jul 19, 20232 min read


Mars Harbors Building Blocks Of Life
Organic molecules found by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater on Mars are more varied than those previously found in Gale Crater by...

By The Financial District
Jul 19, 20231 min read


Belgian Firm Eyes Philippines For Vaccine Production
Belgium-based life sciences firm Univercells is interested in pursuing vaccine manufacturing projects in the Philippines.

By The Financial District
Jul 18, 20232 min read


Scientists Identify Nerve Cells Sensitive To Vibration In Clitoris, Penis
A new study among mice shows that nerve cells, specifically Krause corpuscles, are specialized to respond to vibration and light touch...

By The Financial District
Jul 15, 20232 min read


Blue Origin's Rocket Engine Explodes During Test
One of Blue Origin's powerful BE-4 rocket engines suffered a dramatic failure during testing last month.

By The Financial District
Jul 14, 20231 min read


Earth Registers Hottest Days On July 3-4
The entire planet sweltered for the two unofficial hottest days in human recordkeeping Monday and Tuesday.

By The Financial District
Jul 12, 20231 min read
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