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A new flexible patch sewn into your clothes could one day keep you warm—and lower your electricity bill at the same time.

About the dinosaur wars…? Somehow I find this whole discussion to be debated in a pretty narrow-minded fashion and it renders it, at least to me, fairly useless.

Environmental influences are important, too, but they are largely unsystematic, unstable and idiosyncratic.

• By Robert Plomin on December 14, 2018

HAPPENING NOW: MOU Signing on Himawari-8 Real-Time Web Collaboration among DOST-Advanced Science & Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI), Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS-DOST), Dost_pagasa, and NICT Japan.

For years immunotherapy has held huge promise. Finally, it seems to be coming to fruition with hopes for a cancer vaccine in the near future…

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Don’t miss out on one of the most prolific and reliable meteor showers of the year! The Geminid meteor shower will put on a dazzling display for sky watchers when it peaks on Dec. 13. You’ll be able to see up to 100 meteors per hour. Plan ahead: http://go.nasa.gov/geminids2018

Watch out!

Visible from the Philippines, the Geminid meteor shower will be at its brightest tonight. Read about it and other sights this month and in January 2018.

A LUNAR eclipse will take place on January 21, 2019. But why does a solar eclipse always appear just before and after a lunar eclipse?

It’s like location tracking…but in the future.