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Research Indicates Spiders Use Electric Fields to Take Flight

Since the 1800s, scientists have marveled at how spiders can take flight using their webbing. Charles Darwin remarked on the behavior when tiny spiders landed on the HMS Beagle, trailing lines of...

New treatments give hope to people with brain tumors

  WASHINGTON — Republican Senator John McCain is perhaps the best known person who has brain cancer. His is a glioblastoma, the most deadly type. Since McCain announced the news last year, he...

Century’s longest total lunar eclipse to grace the sky

Skygazers will have a celestial treat this month, when the longest total lunar eclipse of this century will grace the night sky on the evening of July 27. NASA says the lunar...

DOST to launch earthquake Atlas in Cebu

CEBU CITY -- The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-Phivolcs) will launch the Metro Cebu Earthquake Model (MCEM) Atlas on Wednesday here. Department of Science and Technology- Central...

PH’s 1st cube satellite to be launched Friday

MANILA -- The Philippines' first cube satellite, Maya-1, is set to be rocket-launched to the International Space Station (ISS) at 5:41 p.m. (Philippine Standard Time) on Friday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, United...

PH, Korea to collaborate on science, R&D

MANILA -- The Philippines will collaborate with Korea in various areas, especially in research and development (R&D), Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Fortunato Dela Peña told the Philippine News Agency...

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