The Philippines marked another milestone in its nascent space industry as Maya-3 and Maya-4, the country’s first university-built cube satellites (CubeSats), were released to space from the International Space Station (ISS) on October 6, 2021 at 5:20 in the afternoon.
A collaboration between a local eye center and a Europe-based school has resulted in the first successful use of artificial intelligence (AI) in ophthalmology in the Philippines.
Due to the pandemic and decreasing budget for research and development (R&D), the Philippines fell by a notch from 50th place last year to the 51st spot in the 2021 Global Innovation Index (GII) report.
In a bid to spark the interest of Filipinos in the country’s space programs, the DOST’s Advanced Research Institute launched the ASTI Virtual Reality Simulation mobile app last Wednesday, August 25.
A survey of over 1,000 grade school students across the country in K3 to K6 levels found that the children had “a neutral to positive attitude, awareness, and knowledge” of science despite the subject’s perceived difficulty.
The locally built Maya-3 and Maya-4 cube satellites (CubeSats) of the Philippine government were launched to the International Space Station on August 29 at 3:14 P.M. (PST) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s Dragon C208 as part of SpaceX Commercial Resupply Mission-23 (SpX-23).
Following its launch last June 16, the new DOST facility will serve as the central hub for collaborative innovation and training on other “disruptive” technologies such as mechatronics and robotics.
The Project Marayum language initiative seeks to produce an online language dictionary which can be modified by registered members of a specific community who mainly speak the language.
As the pandemic halted the physical classroom setup type of learning, Filipino innovators showcased on Tuesday, Aug. 10, thirteen projects that would help students cope with remote learning in an engaging way.
