Moo Deng is the latest viral animal to take over our lives. And she's just one flight away.
Ah yes, another viral internet animal to claim as our own. It's one of social media's most precious longstanding traditions. Every month, we find a new cute thing to crown and amplify, that latest obsession to take the edge off ...
And how pearls, whether we realize it or not, have come to shape ideas of our nationhood.
Pearls have long been used to metaphorize the Philippines. Of course, the pearl is omnipresent in our literature, extending all the way to our national anthem, crystalized in the "Perlas ng silanganan..." line. Most famously, Jose Rizal immortalized the Philippines' "Perla del ...
Researchers said “unabated loss of forests poses a great threat to the survival" of these insects.
The beetle Pseudapocyrtus Schadenbergi Heller was first documented in 1912 by Dr. Alexander Schadenberg, a German botanist and zoologist who explored some parts of the Philippines. The "Heller" part of the beetle's name comes from German taxonomist K.M. Heller, who ...
While it's just a second, it messes up our concept of time and space.
Our sense of time is changing as the earth's spin changes in an unprecedented way. And for the very first time ever, timekeepers are anticipating having to subtract a second from our clocks in the near future.A "negative leap second" ...
Scientists say they’re either doing it for fun… or for revenge.
Looks like orcas are done with our shit. Encounters between Orcas and boats have been increasing since 2020. According to Grupo de trabajo Orca Atlántica (GOTA)-a conservation group that specializes in orcas-there have been more than 350 orca interactions ...
It will be one of the most beautiful solar eclipses over the Philippines.
If you're still alive on April 20, 2042, you can witness a phenomenon that may never happen ever again: A solar eclipse that will trace its darkest shadow over the entire stretch of Palawan, going eastward over Masbate, and then finally ...
Imagine just harvesting plants instead of mining the earth for metals.
A little-known plant that is fairly new to science eats metal and absorbs soil pollutants, and it is found in only one place in the world: Luzon, Philippines. Rinorea niccolifera (Violaceae) is a metal-eating plant that has the ability to ...
Crowns of vivid pink disturb the expansive green canopy in Masungi Georeserve.
In the middle of the forest in Masungi Georeserve, crowns of vivid pink disturb the expansive green canopy. Philippine cherry blossoms or salinggogon (Cratoxylum formosum) are starting to bloom, signaling the arrival of the dry season in the Philippines. Native to the ...
The limestones of Masungi formed 60 million years ago after a meteor strike wiped out the dinosaurs.
Something tiny and slimy is crawling on the wet and jagged surface of the mountainside: a microsnail, the size of a grain of rice. Measuring just 4 millimeters long, the Masungi microsnail is the newest species of snail in the world. Scientists ...
The BuCor wants to build its headquarters at the heart of the protected reserve.
The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), which runs the prisons in the Philippines, has postponed its plans to construct buildings on top of Masungi Georeserve's Lot 10, a 35-hectare land that features fragile limestone formations millions of years old. It is ...
A Filipino-led team of scientists has discovered a new species of cockroach at the Bukit Timah nature reserve in Singapore and aptly named it after a Pokemon. Nocticola pheromosa is a new species of cockroach discovered by Cristian C. Lucañas, ...
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