Darna, the iconic superhero created by Mars Ravelo and illustrated by Nestor Redondo, has long been dismissed by critics as a copycat of Western comic book heroes like Wonder Woman. But a deeper analysis of the nature of Darna鈥檚 powers鈥攑articularly their connection to the legendary bato (stone)鈥攔eveals a character deeply rooted in Filipino folklore and […]

  On February 5, 2025, Sara Duterte-Carpio became the first vice president in Philippine history to be impeached by the House of Representatives, when Congress held its last plenary session before it adjourned for the 2025 midterm elections. After three impeachment complaints, as well as a series of mobilizations both supporting and opposing the calls […]

The Higgs, Dark Matter, and how the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics puts UP at the forefront of describing reality itself   In 2012, a team at the European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN finally found the Higgs boson, one of the universe鈥檚 elementary particles. Dubbed 鈥榯he God particle鈥 (without much exaggeration) by […]

All-female team explores a promising compound against this 鈥榚ssentially incurable鈥 disease   Society has no shortage of metaphors for cancer. Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee famously titled his bestselling book after a 19th-century surgeon鈥檚 note referring to cancer as 鈥渢he emperor of all maladies, the king of terrors.鈥 Closer to home, marine scientist Dr. Gisela P. Concepcion […]

    Madilim ang kalangitan dala ng walang tigil na pag-ulan. Patuloy ang wasiwas ng mga dahon, kasabay ng paghambalos ng mga alon sa dagat. Hindi na ito bago sa mga residente ng Claveria, isang bayan sa probinsya ng Cagayan. Ganito na raw ang kanilang nakasanayan tuwing sasapit ang tag-ulan. Mahigit apat na buwan na […]

  After almost 44 years of academic service, the country鈥檚 first ever Optica Fellow is just getting started. Light is a peculiar thing to study. In the 1700s, Isaac Newton believed that light was made up of particles too small to see. At around the same time, Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens proposed that light behaved […]