Education, Health & Science

Corals may have found an unlikely ally in the fight against climate change: bacteria.

The world could soon look different in classrooms, newsrooms, and digital platforms after the United Nations backed a push to replace the familiar Mercator map with projections that more accurately show the relative size of countries and continents.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday signed amendments to the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, expanding government assistance beyond free tuition to help poor and disadvantaged students stay in college or technical-vocational training and build a larger skilled workforce.

The Philippines could more than quadruple medical tourism revenues to USD5 billion by 2034, but unlocking that growth will require bigger investments in healthcare and wellness infrastructure, stronger standards, and a more integrated value chain linking hospitals, tourism, logistics, technology, and other industries, government and business leaders said.

Tencent has released Hy4 preview—an open-source, next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, and over 1M-token context window.