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Pacific Ocean garbage patch growing rapidly, study finds

The world's largest collection of ocean garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Hawaii and California, is now bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined. The sprawling patch of detritus, known...

DOST, Toon City Academy team up to bolster PH animation industry

MANILA — The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD), has partnered with Toon City Academy through a...

US-Russia tensions not felt in space

Despite tensions, sanctions and recriminations between the United States and Russia, two American astronauts will join a Russian cosmonaut blasting off Wednesday from Kazakhstan for the International Space Station. Even when things...

Data science firm in Singapore, model to PH scientists

MANILA -- After meeting the head of Iraya Energies Pte. Ltd., a purely Filipino geoscience start-up that applies artificial intelligence (AI) to understand the earth, Philippine Ambassador to Singapore Joseph del...

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76

LONDON — World-renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, who sought to understand a range of cosmic topics from the beginning of the universe to the intricacies of black holes, died Wednesday at...

Students build program that sniffs out Twitter ‘Bots’

SAN FRANCISCO — For months, university students Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte had been tracking about 1,500 political propaganda accounts on Twitter that appeared to have been generated by computers when...

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