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The Philippine Science Heritage Center (PSHC), the country’s resource center highlighting the significant contributions of Filipinos in the world of science, will start becoming interactive in 2015 as the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through its advisory body, the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), launched the Salinlahi Evolution: Game Development Competition last December 5, 2014 at PSHC in Bicutan, Taguig City.
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Quezon City will soon rid its estuaries of tons of garbage clogging its waterways with the recent turnover of an Automatic Trash Raker Facility (ATR) by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to the city.
The waterways run all the way to San Juan River which is blamed for the above-the-waist flooding in G. Araneta Avenue in QC and its nearby barangays.
Read more: DOST-developed trash raker to rid QC of garbage problems
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TAGUIG City -- Typhoon Ruby (international code name Hagupit)has weakened according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) and has been has been downgraded to a tropical storm.
On its 11 a.m. advisory on Monday, December 8, PAGASA noted that Typhoon Ruby has weakened and is now packing maximum sustained winds of 105 kilometers per hour (kph) with a gustiness of up to 135 kph. With its present track, it is forecast to move west northwest at a slow pace of 10 kph. Because TY Ruby weakened, it is expected to exit the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) by Thursday instead of the initial forecast of Wednesday.
Read more: TY Ruby slows down, Eastern Visayas starts clearing operations – DOST-PAGASA