Boehringer Ingelheim said on Sunday its experimental obesity drug cut visceral and liver fat while minimizing loss of lean mass in a late-stage study, data showed, bolstering its case for benefits beyond weight loss as competition in obesity drugs inte...

Italian fashion house Prada unveiled on Sunday the inner-layer garment set to be worn by NASA astronauts heading into space, underscoring the brand"s push to be the first major luxury player to make inroads in the space industry.

The cave lion was one of the biggest cats to ever live, prowling a huge swathe of territory from Western Europe across Siberia and into North America and hunting large prey - and perhaps even people - before going extinct around the end of the Ice Age.

SANCHEONG COUNTY, South Korea - Park Gyeong-je started tending beehives almost five decades ago, making it his livelihood because he liked spending time in nature. These days, however, the changing climate is making him question how much longer he and ...

Weather experts said DOST-PAGASA monitoring stations have limitations in terms of real-time observation and localized monitoring, thus the need to deploy a small team called 'storm chasers" during typhoons to conduct ground truth investigation.

A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion of the orbital laboratory, NASA said.

Girlie, the oldest known Philippine Eagle in captivity, was awarded a senior citizen and persons with disability (PWD) card by the Quezon City government as a symbolic tribute and to highlight Philippine Eagle conservation.

Scientists from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) are using advanced breeding and genomic technologies to develop improved ube varieties and help strengthen the country's purple yam industry.

NASA announced on Tuesday the end of the mission of its MAVEN spacecraft, which spent more than 11 years orbiting Mars to study the atmosphere of Earth's planetary neighbor, after losing contact with the robotic probe six months ago.

Wildlife experts found eight new species of dragonfly, three unknown grasshoppers and some 60 new butterflies and moths in vivid hues during a trip to Angola's Lisima plateau.

An experimental treatment for spinal cord injuries has ignited a frenzy in Brazil, drawing patients from as far off as Mexico to a small-town laboratory, mobilizing the government to expedite approval and turning a scientist into a national celebrity -...

Education Secretary Sonny Angara on Wednesday inaugurated a new Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Learning Resource Center at Jacinto Zamora Elementary School in Manila, providing students with improved access to digital learning tools ju...

Three waterways in the Visayas could play a key role in strengthening the country's energy security, according to a study by researchers from Ateneo de Manila University, which identified the San Bernardino Strait, San Juanico Strait, and Cebu Strait a...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a sweeping slate of AI initiatives, from autonomous workplace assistants and gadgets to Nvidia-powered PCs and a new in-house reasoning model, in a push to move beyond apps and remake computing around AI.

A Swedish government commission proposed banning under-15s from accessing social media. "We are in the process of losing an entire generation to endless scrolling," an official said.

BRUSSELS - TikTok was charged on Friday with breaching EU online content rules over what the bloc's regulator said were its addictive features and was told to change the design of its app or risk a fine of as much as 6% of owner ByteDance's global turn...

SAN FRANCISCO - As the global memory chip shortage hits the smartphone market, a key question is echoing from Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: Will Apple raise prices, or sacrifice profit to gain new customers?

A group of computer engineering students at the Technological Institute of the Philippines in Quezon City has developed a prototype device that helps determine the ripeness of durian. 

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) on Thursday formally turned over S&T-based interventions to six former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) camps.

Did you know, aside from Bohol, tarsiers can be found in 29 provinces in the Philippines?

WASHINGTON - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large - by ever so small an amount - as scientists had previously thought.

PARIS, France -- British scientists said Thursday that a world-first AI tool to catalogue and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in predicting climate change.

Seventy-five years ago, the idea of harnessing the power of the skies was little more than fantasy spun by futurists like Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. Elon Musk's mega-merger of his companies xAI and SpaceX this week brings this sci-fi dream a st...

WASHINGTON - NASA pushed its Artemis II mission to March after wrapping up a launch rehearsal that uncovered issues with the massive Space Launch System rocket's fueling process, the latest delay for the mission to fly four astronauts around the moon a...

Spain will ban access to social media for minors under 16 and platforms will be required to implement age verification systems, among measures to guarantee a safe digital environment.

What began as quiet anxiety inside an international competition hall in Houston, Texas, ended in a historic victory for Philippine science education.

A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked the update process for the popular code editing platform Notepad++ to deliver a custom backdoor and other malware to targeted users, the program"s developer and cybersecurity researcher...

A hospital in Barcelona said it had performed a pioneering facial transplant in which the donor, in a world first, had offered her face for donation before undergoing assisted dying.

PARIS, France - Artificial intelligence helps doctors spot more cases of breast cancer when reading routine scans, a world-first trial found Friday.  

WASHINGTON - Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also helps not to get hit by a dump truck. But what about your genes? That has been a contentious question for decades.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in the National Capital Region announced it will provide free online review classes for students who will take the DOST-Science Education Institute (SEI) Undergraduate Scholarship Exam.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake jolted the town of Kalamansig in Sultan Kudarat early Wednesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said.

The Doomsday Clock moved closer than ever to midnight, with AI threats, conflicts, and aggressive behavior by nuclear powers among factors driving risks for global disaster.

The Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Textile Research (DOST-PTRI) Institute is planning to develop a scanning system that would detect counterfeit textiles.

PARIS, France - The threat posed by plastic production, usage and disposal to human health will skyrocket in the coming years unless the world does something to address this global crisis, researchers warned Tuesday.  

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full moon, scientists have created the most detailed cosmic map to date of the mysterious substance called dark matter that account...

Have you ever imagined learning while playing an arcade video game? A group of engineering students has turned that idea into reality by developing a fun and interactive way to help improve children"s reading literacy.

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has approved the National Digital Connectivity Plan (NDCP).