WASHINGTON, March 3 (PNA/Xinhua) — Eating peanuts may lower your risk of dying from a heart attack, U.S. and Chinese researchers said Monday. Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the Shanghai Cancer Institute…
Category: Science and Technology
Astronomers find impossibly large black hole of early universe
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (PNA/Xinhua) — An international team of astronomers said Wednesday they have found an ancient black hole so big that it challenges theories on how they form and grow in…
U.S. researchers develop new blood test for early cancer detection
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (PNA/Xinhua) — U.S. researchers said Monday they have developed a new blood test that has the potential to detect cancers in their earliest stages. In a proof-of-principle study, researchers…
Marine scientists study Burias Pass biodiversity
By Rhaydz B. Barcia LEGAZPI CITY, Feb. 17 (PNA) — Foreign and Filipino marine scientists are closely studying the importance of the biodiversity in the Burias Pass, home of rare and endangered…
PHL must include Science, Technology in curriculum to be competitive with other APEC member economies, says official
CLARK FREEPORT ZONE, Angeles City, Feb. 7 (PNA) — The Philippines lags behind with other countries in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of education, especially in areas of science and technology, and…
Scientists discover organism that hasn’t evolved in two billion years
MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (PNA/Sputnik) — The international team of scientists responsible for the discovery published their findings Friday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team examined microscopic sulfur bacteria…
Sen. Villar lauds IRRI’s new plant research facility
By Robert Maico LOS BAÑOS, Laguna Jan 28 (PNA) — Senator Cynthia Villar, chairperson of the Senate committee on food and agriculture, lauded the construction of the new International Rice Research Institute…
DOST testing center clients to double to 170 by year-end
By Juzel OL. Danganan MANILA, Jan. 28 (PNA) — The Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST’s) Advanced Device and Materials Testing Laboratory (ADMATEL) is poised to double the number of its clients…
Portuguese scientists develop new method of determining sex of penguins
LISBON, Dec. 10 (PNA/Xinhua) — Scientists from the University of Coimbra in Portugal are leading an international team developing a method for determining the sex of penguin species more quickly, cheaply and…
1 in 5 enterprises use cloud computing services in EU: Eurostat
BRUSSELS, Dec. 10 (PNA/Xinhua) — A fifth of enterprises used cloud computing services in the European Union (EU) in 2014, according to data released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU…
NASA’s Orion spacecraft returns to land after test flight
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (PNA/Xinhua) — NASA’s new human spacecraft, Orion, has been brought back to shore by a U.S. navy ship after its successful first test flight that ended with a splashdown…
New artificial skin senses many types of touch
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (PNA/PTI) — Researchers have developed an artificial skin that is warm and elastic and can sense many types of touch just like real skin. The researchers laminated the…
DOH: People behind the researches on ActRx TriAct must be held accountable
By Leilani S. Junio MANILA, Dec. 1 (PNA) — The Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday that people behind the researches using ActRx TriAct in clinical trials for the treatment of…
Study finds graphene potentially useful in fuel cell technology
LONDON, Nov. 27 (PNA/Xinhua) — Graphene, impermeable to gases and liquids, can easily allow protons to pass through it, suggesting it could be a promising candidate for use in hydrogen fuel cells,…
US researchers report successful trial of Ebola vaccine
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (PNA/TASS) — An experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus disease has passed first trials in the United States, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…