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FlipFact (January 5, 2020): Tardigrades will outlast all of us (yes, even cockroaches)
FlipFact of the Day: Reading all the feats attributed to tardigrades (also known as water bears) feels like listing down a…
Louis Braille:The man who helped blind people read (and has an asteroid named after him)
The blind French educator Louis Braille invented the Braille system to enable the visually impaired to learn through the written…
Is it a bear? Is it a cat? Nope – it’s a bearcat (binturong)!
Shutterstock (Updated on January 3, 2021) Despite what its name and appearance may suggest, the binturong or Palawan bearcat (Arctictis binturong)…
This is how owls can twist their necks a la ‘The Exorcist’
Shutterstock (Updated on January 2, 2021) Ever gone owl-watching? You’ve probably seen our feathery friends rotate their heads in ways…
Got an unused calendar from 2010? You can use it in 2021
(Updated on January 1, 2021) Have you ever wondered what to do with all those old, unused calendars and planners…
The 10 most popular FlipScience stories of 2019
The last 12 months of the 2010s proved to be yet another spectacular year for science. Indeed, so many amazing…
Maria Ylagan Orosa: The Pinay chemist you should thank for banana ketchup (and so much more)
(Updated on August 16, 2021) On November 29, 1892, Filipina food technologist and pharmaceutical chemist Maria Ylagan Orosa was born. A…
FlipFact (October 22, 2019): Is the world’s largest caldera located in the Philippine Rise?
FlipFact of the Day: The world’s largest known caldera (a volcanic feature formed after a volcano erupts and collapses) may actually…
FlipFact (October 2, 2019): Does the color red really make bulls angry?
FlipFact of the Day: The color red doesn’t make bulls angry. In fact, they’re color-blind to it. It’s not the…
FlipFact (October 1, 2019): What Diwata-1, the Philippines’ first microsatellite, has been doing in space
FlipFact of the Day: Diwata-1 has taken thousands of images from space, all of which are free and accessible to…
