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Solar power is brightening up the health care delivery in MIMAROPA.

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“Disaster imagination” – this technique enables communities to formulate their strategies and implement disaster preparedness protocols that will ensure safety for communities. Coined and introduced by Dr. Renato U. Solidum Jr., disaster imagination refers to the idea of imagining or visualizing the possible effects of hazards such as earthquakes in different locations. Solidum is the director of the Department of Science and Technology – Phivolcs.

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Diwata-1, the Philippines’ first microsatellite for scientific earth observation, again  captured high resolution images during the satellite’s test phase. Diwata-1’s High Precision Telescope (HPT), one of the four cameras onboard, obtained images with a ground resolution of 3m at nadir (or lowest point), the highest resolution attained so far by a microsatellite in the 50-kg class. This was announced recently by the Department of Science and Technology’s Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) and the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) which have been collaborating with Japan’s Hokkaido and Tohoku Universities for the operation of Diwata-1.

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Promoting the 2016 National Science and Technology Week (NSTW) through a mini-concert was one of the new things that happened for this year’s biggest S&T event. Through the partnership of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and with Enchanted Kingdom, the BOB Band staged a mini-concert at the Enchanted Kingdom Bandstand on July 16 and 23. In between songs and the rhythm of rain, DOST and the EK through the BOB Band infused fun and knowledge about the 2016 NSTW. (By Alexandria Dennise San Juan, S&T Media Service, DOST-STII)