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Drones, ginagamit na rin sa pagsasaka

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 20 01:05 AM

Ipinakilala ang teknolohiya sa mga magsasaka sa Hilagang Luzon, pero kakayanin kaya ito ng bulsa ng mga magsasaka? Read more »

8 Duterte party mates in new 'narco list'

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 16 06:17 AM

Eight of President Rodrigo Duterte's party mates were among those included in his list of politicians with alleged links to the illegal drug trade.   Read more »

Makabagong medical devices, angkop sa pangangailangan ng mga Pinoy

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 16 01:31 AM

Angkop din ang disenyo nito para sa pangangailangan ng mga Pinoy. Read more »

Women face greater threat from job automation than men

Kate Ryan, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Mar 14 06:40 AM

NEW YORK - Women across the economic spectrum are more vulnerable than men to losing their jobs to technology, according to a study released on Wednesday by the Institute for Women's Policy Research.  Read more »

Why does breast cancer recur? New study finds clues

Sara Hussein, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 14 06:24 AM

TOKYO, Japan - For breast cancer survivors, the risk of tumors returning casts a long shadow, with recurrence possible up to 2 decades after a diagnosis. But new research could help identify and treat those most in danger.  Read more »

One more time, with big data: Measles vaccine doesn’t cause autism

Jan Hoffman, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 06 11:55 AM

The new research confirms what has long been widely accepted in the scientific community, and it echoes findings of a 2002 study by members of the same team of scientists about the vaccine, known as MMR because it protects against measles, mumps and rubella. Read more »

HIV reported cured in a second patient, a milestone in the global AIDS epidemic

Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 05 05:05 PM

For just the second time since the global epidemic began, a patient appears to have been cured of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Read more »

PGH biobank inilunsad para sa pag-aaral ng cancer sa PH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 20 11:07 PM

Target ngayon ng pamahalaan na mailatag ang tamang pag-aaral sa mga kaso ng cancer sa mga Pilipino. Read more »

Mga pahayag ng Senate bets na nag-'Harapan' sinalang sa fact-checking

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 20 05:09 PM

Isinailalim sa fact-checking ang mga pahayag ng mga kandidato sumalang sa unang "Harapan 2019." Read more »

Earth's earliest mobile organisms lived 2.1 billion years ago

Will Dunham, Reuters
Posted at Feb 12 05:00 AM

WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered in 2.1-billion-year-old black shale from a quarry in Gabon the earliest evidence of a revolutionary development in the history of life on Earth, the ability of organisms to move from one place to another on their own. Read more »

Political families eye 2019 party-list seats

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 05 10:34 PM

A study by the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group revealed a large proportion of party-list seats, up for grabs in the May elections, could potentially be occupied by nominees who belong to prominent political families. Read more »

INFOGRAPHIC: Party-list nominees who belong to political families

ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group; infographic by Pamela Ramos, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 08 04:02 PM

Kingpins of provincial and congressional districts are now adopting this long-held maxim in an attempt to expand their control by way of the the party-list system, fielding relatives as nominees in the May 13 elections. Read more »

Vaping 2 times better for quitting smoking than patches, gum: study

Kerry Sheridan, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 31 07:26 AM

E-cigarettes are twice as effective as nicotine patches or gum at helping people quit smoking traditional cigarettes, according to major British study Wednesday, involving nearly 900 people. Read more »

Antarctica ice loss increases six fold since 1979: study

Kerry Sheridan, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 07:04 AM

Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before -- about 6 times more per year now than 40 years ago -- leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned Monday. Read more »

Social media linked to higher risk of depression in teen girls

Reuters
Posted at Jan 04 12:10 PM

Teenage girls are twice as likely as boys to show depressive symptoms linked to social media use - mainly due to online harassment and disturbed sleep, as well as poor body image and lower self-esteem, researchers said on Friday. Read more »

Yearender: War on drugs death toll higher in 2018 compared to last year

ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group
Posted at Dec 27 05:27 PM

The number of fatalities reported as a result of anti-narcotics operations by the government was higher this year compared to 2017, based on independent monitoring by the ABS-CBN Investigative & Research Group.  Read more »

Social media tops print as news source for Americans: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 11 05:07 AM

WASHINGTON - Social media has overtaken print newspapers as a news source for Americans, researchers said Monday, highlighting the growing importance of services such as Facebook and Twitter as well as the troubled state of legacy news organizations. Read more »

What experts say on OPEC oil output cut

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 07 08:54 AM

Charles Nenner, CEO and founder of Charles Nenner Research, and Paul Hickin, associate director of S&P Global Platts, talk about the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' (OPEC) decision to cut oil output and its implications. Read more »

Around half of hip hop videos feature smoking, researchers say

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 16 07:28 AM

Almost half of the music clips made for hip hop's biggest hits in the past five years have featured scenes of smoking or vaping, researchers said Monday.   Read more »

IRRI, Corteva ink agreement on rice research as firm launches in Asia Pacific

Tarra Quismundo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 15 08:32 PM

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and agricultural firm Corteva Agriscience on Monday signed an agreement that would support rice breeding research to bring innovation from laboratory to farm faster as part of efforts to ensure food security amid population growth and climate change. Read more »