This breakthrough is expected to boost local conservation efforts There used to be a time when the primarily nocturnal Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi) could be found in large numbers across inland areas of the Visayas. Considered one of the most beautiful deer in the world, it is now among the most endangered. […]
All-female team explores a promising compound against this ‘essentially incurable’ disease Society has no shortage of metaphors for cancer. Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee famously titled his bestselling book after a 19th-century surgeon’s note referring to cancer as “the emperor of all maladies, the king of terrors.” Closer to home, marine scientist Dr. Gisela P. Concepcion […]
Madilim ang kalangitan dala ng walang tigil na pag-ulan. Patuloy ang wasiwas ng mga dahon, kasabay ng paghambalos ng mga alon sa dagat. Hindi na ito bago sa mga residente ng Claveria, isang bayan sa probinsya ng Cagayan. Ganito na raw ang kanilang nakasanayan tuwing sasapit ang tag-ulan. Mahigit apat na buwan na […]
After almost 44 years of academic service, the country’s first ever Optica Fellow is just getting started. Light is a peculiar thing to study. In the 1700s, Isaac Newton believed that light was made up of particles too small to see. At around the same time, Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens proposed that light behaved […]
UP Biologists found Philippine Tarsier behaviors that defy expectations, and could suggest a new species. Found along the coast of Northern Mindanao, the 50-hectare Initao-Libertad Protected Landscape and Seascape (ILPLS) in Misamis Oriental may seem like an unlikely place to study wildlife. This limestone forest is split into an ecotourism zone with matching infrastructure, bordered […]
University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Communication Arts Assistant Professor and UPLB Learning Resource Center Director Mariyel Hiyas Liwanag has invented a tabletop game designed to teach students about the country’s native languages. This board game was the topic of her Ph.D. dissertation, Isabuhay: Isang larong disenyo para sa mga diskurso ng mga wikang […]
A study done in the University of the Philippines Manila (UPM) on the effects of solvent addiction on mice has given its members important clues on the common and different ways toluene—commonly known as “rugby”—affects male and female adolescent brains when inhaled repeatedly. Toluene is a common solvent found in paint, paint thinners, and silicone […]
The year is 2007. The late afternoon sun penetrates the glass windows of Bulwagang Rizal’s Gallery 1, uncovering different angles and textures of a Parts Bagani painting sprawled across a wall—lush, green rainforest under a vast, vermillion sky; along the trees, a procession of silhouettes of armed revolutionaries. A few steps from the painting, […]
For over three decades, the University of the Philippines (UP) has been helping address the nation’s educational challenges through the Gurong Pahinungód (GP) Program. his initiative has deployed more than 400 dedicated volunteer teachers to public high schools nationwide, focusing particularly on underserved and remote communities recommended by the Department of Education. No […]
It was almost midnight on November 11, 2020 when Ulysses (Vamco) made landfall in Quezon Province. The soon to be Category 4 typhoon would bring Luzon’s dams to failure, flooding both the Marikina and Cagayan River Basins. Water levels of the Marikina River back then exceeded even those during Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) which wreaked havoc […]