Author: Mikael Angelo Francisco
FlipFact (April 7, 2020): What is a “Pink Moon”?
It’s that time of year again: Images of the Moon seemingly shaded with pink highlighter will be plastered across online…
Bees can understand zero—but how do we know this?
The concept of zero is a basic part of our everyday lives. This is probably why we rarely appreciate the…
FlipFact (April 5, 2020): What are fulgurites, and how are they formed?
In 1812, the population of Drigg, a small village in England, uncovered a strange secret buried under the sand. They…
FlipFact (April 4, 2020): Why do bats carry so many diseases?
When it comes to carrying viral diseases, few mammals come close to bats. Think of the most lethal viral disease…
FlipFact (April 3, 2020): Moonbows, the rainbows that appear at night
There’s a good chance that you’ve already seen a rainbow in real life. The colorful result of sunlight being reflected…
How many Earths could fit inside the Sun?
Considering that there are over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, our Sun isn’t all that special. It’s formally…
𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴-2.0: The world’s first fully computer-generated bacterial genome
On April 1, 2019, a team of scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich,…
Attention, incoming 3rd year college students! Apply for DOST’s scholarship program online
The Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) is now accepting applicants for its 2020 Junior Level Science Scholarship…
The quarantine has improved Metro Manila’s air quality—but is it a reason to celebrate?
•Data from air monitoring stations in Quezon City revealed a massive decrease in air pollution since the implementation of the…
The panic-buying, misinformed Pinoy: How a pandemic attacks rationality
This article is part of our “Psychology of a Pandemic” series. In his 1990 essay published in Sociology of Health &…
