Astronomers Discover a Young Milky Way Doppelganger from Billions of Years Ago
by: Qwynz B. Bonachita || Photo Credit: Artist’s Impression of the Milky Way in its Youth by James Josephides, Swinburne University Did you know that even our Milky Way can have a doppelganger? Through the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that the Sparkler galaxy, galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, is a mirror image of…
White Beaches and Dead Fishes: The Beautification of Manila Bay
by: Nathaniel Dela Torre || Photo Credit: George Calvelo/ABS-CBN News The Rehabilitation of Manila Bay started three years ago, along with ongoing reclamation projects. Beyond the white beach and dead fish stands an ecosystem endangered by these reclamation projects. The rehabilitation of the bay cost a whopping PHP 389 million, with PHP 28 million spent…
𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒑 𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒙: World’s Largest Raptor Dinosaur
by: Clarence Jude Tabinas || Photo Credit: New Atlas Argentinian paleontologists have discovered the remains of Maip macrothorax, the world’s largest raptor dinosaur, at the Chorrillo Formation in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Its length ranged between 9 to 10 meters which was longer than other “megaraptors,” whose lengths ranged between 6 to 8 meters. As…
A rainy welcome to December
by: Nathaniel Dela Torre || Photo Credit: fitopardo.com/Moment Open/Getty Images Heavy rain and possible thunderstorms are expected to greet us as we enter the Christmas season, as reported by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration’s (PAGASA) daily weather forecasts. Cloudy skies, moderate to heavy rain, and thunderstorms are forecasted to occur in most…
Climate Change: What did it do to 2022?
by: Alexis Celine Morabe || Photo Credit: Getty Images/Forbes Climate change is a story we’ve all heard and a tune we can sing in harmony. Scientists have warned us of the consequences of it, yet we never seem to fail to look the other way. Although 2022 may not have been the most disastrous year…
Two-faced Beauty of Artificial Intelligence
by Kyle Andrew Abello || Photo Credit: Simplilearn “OK, Google, open the-science-net.com.” Anyone who owns a device, whether it be a smartphone or a laptop, has likely already come across or is familiar with the likes of voice recognition interfaces, such as Google Assistant, Cortana, Siri, or Alexa. One might consider them as the voices…
DART: Redirecting asteroids for planetary defense
by Nathaniel Dela Torre || Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins/Handout via REUTERS On the 26th of September, at 7:14 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully made its impact with the asteroid Dimorphos as a part of NASA’s overall planetary defense strategy. This event turned out to…
Fall Equinox: Embracing Autumn in a Tropical Country
by David Roberts || Photo Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images “Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days” – Taylor Swift, All Too Well (Taylor’s Version) So the season of pumpkin spice lattes and crunched golden leaves is fast approaching, huh? Although we live in the tropics,…
Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Shots Include Protection Against Omicron
by Dwight Marquez || Photo Credit: Johns Hopkins: Bloomberg School of Public Health Anticipating an uptick in COVID-19 cases, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the emergency use authorizations of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines to allow the use of newly reformulated vaccines as single-use booster shots. The updated COVID-19 booster is…
The Fight Against Climate Change
by: Gabriel Segura || Photo Credit: Louise Mikayla Lelina On April 6, 2022, Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist working at NASA, chained himself, along with four others, to the entrance of Chase Bank. In a voice both defiant and fraught with trepidation, he decried the corporations and governments who have ignored the 50 years’ worth…
PSHS-EVC holds its annual SMT Fair
by Vean Cordero || Photo Credit: SMT Fair Website The Philippine Science High School – Eastern Visayas Campus (PSHS-EVC) held its highly anticipated Science, Mathematics, and Technology (SMT) Fair with the theme “PSHS-EVC at 30: S&T Solutions towards a Sustainable Philippine Development” via Zoom last March 28 and 29, 2022. This year’s SMT Fair was…
Grade 12 Students Win Award in International Science Fair
by: Gabriel Segura || Photo Credit: Center for Research in Science and Technology Facebook Page Three Grade 12 students from PSHS-EVC were awarded the Rising Star Award in Computer Science at the 5th KVIS Invitational Science Fair, held on January 24-28, 2022. The study, titled Electronic Registration, Logbook, and Scheduling System (ERLSS): Localizing Technology for…
COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout for Ages 5-11 Postponed to February 7
by: Vean Cordero || Photo credit: CNN Philippines The vaccination rollout for children ages 5 to 11, originally scheduled to begin on February 4, 2022 — as announced by Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a press briefing last January 25 — was postponed to Monday, February 7. The Department of Health (DOH) announced on…
Omicron – PH Status
by: Sun Yu || Photo Credits: Rappler || It was not so long ago when the number of COVID-19 cases dropped to a few hundreds. On December 18, 2021, there were only 22 new confirmed cases. However, on the first day of 2022, 4,445 tested positive, and the numbers have only risen since then. In…
Delta Variant Continues to Wreak Havoc
by Clarence Tabinas || Photo Credit: Reuters The pandemic has been ravaging the world for almost two years now, with people anxiously hoping for an end to the crisis. But instead of stopping, more and more variants continue to emerge through the mutation of SARS-CoV-2. Among these variants, however, one has become a cause for…
STEER: SARS-EVC conducts career talk
by Gab Segura || Photo credit: SARS (PSHS-EVC) In an effort to bolster interest in research amongst the Philippine Science High School – Eastern Visayas Campus (PSHS-EVC) student body, the Society for the Advancement of Research in Science (SARS) organized STEER: Scholarly Talks to Encourage and Empower Research. The event was held last November 19,…
What’s Beneath a Solar Panel?
by Jim Yvene Cadion || Photo credit: Energy Department of the US There is something crucial, yet inconspicuous, about the sun. It is behind the fame of the world’s dominating energy sources, such as fossil fuels and hydroelectric power. Both the chemical potential energy in fossil fuels and the kinetic energy used by hydroelectric power…
PSHS-EVC brings home First Prize in 2021 RICE Eastern Visayas
by Bryan Justine Dela Cruz || Photo Credit: DOST-TAPI Philippine Science High School – Eastern Visayas Campus (PSHS-EVC) proves once more that it is unrivaled in research and innovation in Region VIII after securing first place in the Sibol Award for Outstanding Student Creative Research Category High School at the Regional Invention Contest and Exhibits…
Millions Lost as COVID-19 Test Kits Expire
by: Nathan Dela Torre || Photo Credit: CNN In March of 2020, the Philippines reported its first COVID-19 case, resulting in the government imposing the first of many community quarantines. With more COVID-19 cases being reported every day, the government has been tasked to strengthen its COVID-19 response, including the push for mass testing. Yet,…
SpaceX’s Inspiration4: The First All-Civilian Crew to Orbit the Earth
Jun Kwon M. Shin|| Photo credits: Space.com Elon Musk and his aerospace company, SpaceX, takes another leap for mankind with the success of the first all-civilian space flight mission, Inspiration4. On September 15 at 8:02 p.m. EDT, SpaceX successfully launched its Crew Dragon spacecraft. Aboard the spacecraft are four amateur astronauts. With this achievement, the…
Fabricante Secures Spot in Finals of the Breakthrough Junior Challenge
Vean Cordero || The Philippines secures a spot in the top 16 of the Breakthrough Junior Challenge (BJC) for the fourth time as Francine Oren T. Fabricante (18), a 12th-grader from Philippine Science High School – Main Campus, was announced as one of the finalists last September 21 with her video entry “Gravitational Waves: The…
Pandemics, quarantine and mental health
Danna Mheliza Mae D. Budaño || Uneasiness, anxiety, dread, tension, confusion, and hopelessness have been our loyal companions ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started ravaging the country last year. We were optimistic that everything would go back to normal after a few months; that we would be back with our normal lives as if nothing…
A Fight for Our Eagles
Bryan Justine Dela Cruz || Feared close to extinction because of the rapid decline of its population, the Philippine eagle is continually being conserved and protected by Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) despite the current global health crisis. The monogamous Philippine Eagle, a natural treasure found only in the Philippines, faces extinction due to human activities,…
Rediscovery of the Pinatubo Volcano Mouse
Bryan Justine G. Dela Cruz || 30 years ago, in the province of Zambales, endless amounts of magma and ash spewed out of the mouth of Mount Pinatubo. Lava that pooled into layers up to 600 feet thick in the valleys burned and destroyed everything it touched. The once lavish green forests covering the mountains…
Inequality in the Solution
Niel Dustin Benedict Agner || In recent years, nothing has ever been as disruptive to human society as the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic took the world by surprise, and amidst this life-changing experience, one of the voices that need to be heard is the World Health Organization (WHO), which PubMed describes as one that “plays…
Path to decarbonisation
Danna Mheliza Mae Budano || Have you ever wondered why our country experiences scorching heat all year long, or why storms seem to be packing up more wind and rain compared to the past? Have you ever asked how we can possibly stop it from getting worse? Increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, intensifying typhoons –…
Behind the negatives and positives
Danna Mheliza Mae Budano || It has been several months since COVID – 19 started plaguing the shores of Eastern Visayas, and since then, we have seen several thousands of cases, with more cases popping up due to hundreds of people being tested everyday. So, how exactly do we test people and determine whether someone…
mRNA vaccines: How does it work?
Neil Dustin Benedict Agner || For several months, the world has been anxiously waiting for a sort of relief, a first-line prevention for the menace that plagued us ceaselessly – the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the long-awaited vaccine has arrived as Pfizer and Moderna announce their COVID-19 vaccine. These vaccines, just days apart, showed high levels…
Dangers of Lunar Dust
Jun Kwon Shin || “It’s come on pretty fast,” radioed Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt with a hoarse voice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reports. And as the allergic reactions raged on for hours, the first man to have caught extraterrestrial hay fever was recorded. It all began when the crew returned…
Extending life: The fight against Progeria
Bryan Justine Dela Cruz || The U.S. FDA approves the first-ever drug treatment, Zokinvy, for the rapid-aging disease Progeria. On November 20, 2020, Progeria Research Foundation partnered with Eiger BioPharmaceuticals (Eiger) announced that Zokinvy, or medically known as Lonafarnib, is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a milestone in the field of medicine.…
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