Meta's Instagram and Facebook social networks appeared to suffer some outages on Sunday, with users reporting issues with the app and website.

DAEJEON, South Korea - A team of South Korean and US researchers has unveiled a robotic technology that allows a person to suit up without using their hands or aid from others, with potential for applications in chip cleanrooms and emergency services.

Scientists have identified a new species of monkey in Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforest, distinguished by patches of light-colored skin around its mouth, Florida Atlantic University said in a statement.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Seeds from South Africa's world-famous rooibos tea are headed to the International Space Station to see how they respond to space conditions, in the first such experiment for Africa, organizers announced Thursday.

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is exploring potential partnerships with organizations in France and the United Kingdom to strengthen nuclear science education, advanced research, and deep-tech innovation in the Philippines.

JIND, India - India launched its first hydrogen-powered train Friday, joining a small group of nations testing the technology as part of efforts to decarbonize rail transport and cut dependence on fossil fuels.

With extreme heat and flooding becoming more frequent due to climate change, the Mandaue City government is turning to science, technology, and innovation to develop policies aimed at building a more disaster-resilient community.

BEIJING - Chinese AI startup Moonshot on Friday unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that it said is the world's largest open-weight AI system and delivers performance approaching U.S. giant Anthropic's frontier Fable model.

Perched atop a mountain in Chile"s Coquimbo region, where some of the world"s darkest skies stretch over the Andes, a giant observatory has begun filming the infinite to create the first movie of the universe.

A starfish fungus (Aseroe rubra) was spotted by a mountaineer during a hike in Sierra Madre.

OSLO/LONDON - As Europe's railways buckle under record heat, roads melt and power grids strain, countries are turning to an array of fixes for ageing infrastructure, from drones inspecting tracks and AI-powered sensors to a surprisingly simple tool: wh...

HARWICH, England - An international team of around 80 scientists and crew will set sail on polar research ship the RSS David Attenborough for Greenland this week to investigate whether the island's rapidly melting glaciers could disrupt a major Atlanti...

The National Academy of Science and Technology-Philippines (NAST PHL), under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), is calling for intensified research and development on seaweed-derived bioplastics as a sustainable solution to plastic pollut...

Several major music industry organizations on Friday unveiled a labeling system for content created with generative artificial intelligence that they would like to see widely adopted.

A traditional Filipino street game has found new life in the digital world after students from Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) developed "BangSak: Water Rising," a multiplayer video game inspired by the classic game of bangsak.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way architects, engineers, and interior designers work, helping them generate concepts and visualizations in minutes instead of days. But industry professionals say the technology remains a tool that can...

Batangas State University's Team Inflection Point placed third in the final round of the sixth Kibo Robot Programming Challenge (Kibo-RPC) organized by JAXA.

What is the secret to a long life? Three Brazilian sisters with a combined age of 316, who were named by Guinness this month as the oldest living trio of siblings in the world, may help researchers find out.

Trials of two separate potential treatments to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are expected to begin next week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

Scientists have detected the "fingerprints" of a black hole's event horizon--the boundary from which nothing can escape--for the first time, by studying ripples in space-time.

Germany should consider barring under-13s from running their own social media accounts and introducing a parental duty to prevent "digital neglect," an expert panel has advised.

The United Nations called on major AI companies on Tuesday to publicly disclose the full environmental cost of their data centers.

The Department of Science and Technology (Department of Science and Technology) and enterprise artificial intelligence firm NMBLR AI have entered into a partnership aimed at advancing AI knowledge and supporting businesses in the country.

Britain is considering forcing social media companies to prioritize what the government called trusted news sources as part of its broader push to tighten regulation of the sector.

Scientists studying the comet 3I/ATLAS have determined that this interstellar visitor is remarkably ancient - formed an estimated 10 to 12 billion years ago in a primordial planetary system - and has a composition unlike anything in our solar system.

Following a complex surgery that lasted more than six hours, Filipino conjoined twins Olivia Faith and Giana Faith were successfully separated.

June 21 marks the longest day of the year for countries in the Northern Hemisphere which includes the Philippines, signaling the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

PARIS, France - Need some good news on a Friday after a long week?

Zoom has launched ZoomMate, an AI-powered assistant designed to help users create deliverables and coordinate follow-through across workflows without switching between tools.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian scientists have discovered a new species of parasitic fungus in Borneo's jungles that preys on "zombie fungus" that are known to infect insects before subjecting them to a gruesome death.

An asteroid discovered by a Hong Kong-born astronomer has been named after a firefighter who died battling an inferno at a housing complex in the financial hub that killed 168 people last year.

About 5,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers inhabited the Lake Baikal region in Siberia. They became victims of the earliest-known plague outbreak, especially the children and adolescents.

The Philippines had about 20 million more cellular mobile connections than its actual population in October 2025, highlighting Filipinos" continued reliance on multiple mobile subscriptions despite the country"s mandatory SIM registration policy.

Social media user identities in the Philippines grew by 9 million in just a year, reaching 95.8 million as of October 2025, according to the Digital 2026 Philippines report by DataReportal.

The US has held off adding China"s AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged as national security risks to a trade blacklist, according to two people familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration tries...

A significant level of nighttime lights has been restored in parts of Mindanao in the wake of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that rocked the region on June 8, the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) said on Tuesday.

Researchers say they confirmed that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate--the very observation that led to the identification in the 1990s of the cosmic force called dark energy.

The effects of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Mindanao continue to be observed across several areas.