Education, Health & Science
SM Investments, DOST-PHIVOLCS team up to boost disaster resilience via GeoRiskPH tools
SM Investments Corporation, parent firm of the SM Group, has forged a partnership with the Department of Science and Technology–Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-PHIVOLCS) to integrate official hazard and risk data into the planning and management of its properties and operations nationwide.
PhilHealth eyes upfront funding for hospitals
The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) plans to pilot a global-budget payment system that could give hospitals funding upfront, as it expands no-balance-billing options and seeks to cut patients’ out-of-pocket healthcare costs.
ChatGPT can read your personality before you do
ChatGPT may be doing more than writing emails, brainstorming ideas, and settling arguments about dinner. New research suggests the AI can also create personality tests—and predict how people will answer them.
Supercentenarians have immune systems that fight back
Living to 110 is already an extraordinary feat. Doing it with an immune system apparently stocked with an unusually large squad of cancer-killing cells makes the achievement even more intriguing.
Jobstreet, TESDA link skills training to jobs
Jobstreet by SEEK and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) are tightening the link between technical-vocational training and employment as the Philippines seeks to turn skilled talent into job-ready workers.
