SCIENCE ON SCREEN
In Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy portrays the physicist who directed this wartime research effort in Los Alamos.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The internet spent days arguing whether this viral 2015 dress was blue and black or these two other colors.
What are white and gold?
Her research helped make newborn screening a national program; this UPCM alumna and former UP Manila Chancellor was named a National Scientist for her work in clinical genetics.
Who is Carmencita Padilla?
When a paper has too many authors to name comfortably, this Latin abbreviation comes to the rescue after the first surname.
What is et al.?
Chris Martin sings, “Nobody said it was easy,” in this Coldplay hit whose title sounds right at home in a research institute.
What is The Scientist?
This black-clad chaos theorist spends much of Jurassic Park warning everyone that their experiment is going to go very, very wrong.
Who is Dr. Ian Malcolm?
In 2018, one audio clip divided the internet between “Laurel” and this other name.
What is Yanny?
This UP Manila physician-scientist led the development of Biotek-M, the proudly Pinoy molecular diagnostic kit designed for rapid dengue detection.
Who is Raul Destura?
Your manuscript never even meets Reviewer 2—the editor rejects it before external peer review begins. Researchers know this particular heartbreak as this.
What is a desk rejection?
Britney Spears plays everything from a flight attendant to a jewel thief in the music video for this Grammy-winning hit.
What is Toxic?
In Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnson’s calculations helped send this first American into Earth orbit.
Who is John Glenn?
Born in 1996, this sheep became an international celebrity for being the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
Who is Dolly?
For years, this physician-researcher headed DOST’s health-research council, PCHRD, and became one of the most recognizable names behind the country’s MD-PhD scholarship program.
Who is Jaime Montoya?
Researchers have been known to celebrate when this statistical value crosses below the magical-looking threshold of 0.05.
What is the p-value?
A whistle opens the music video for this 2017 BTS track, the lead single from Love Yourself: Her.
What is DNA?
Jennifer Lawrence’s astronomer and Leonardo DiCaprio’s professor spend most of this 2021 film trying to make people care about their research findings.
What is Don’t Look Up?
A blurry orange ring became one of science’s most viral images in 2019 when researchers released the first image of one of these.
What is a black hole?
This UPCM professor and National Scientist built a major research career around viral hepatitis and liver disease, including work linking chronic hepatitis B with liver cancer.
Who is Ernesto Domingo?
This three-word academic saying summarizes the pressure to keep producing journal articles if you want your research career to survive.
What is publish or perish?
Stuffed animals battle in an underground fighting ring in the bizarre music video for this Imagine Dragons breakthrough hit.
What is Radioactive?
In Arrival, Amy Adams plays an academic recruited to communicate with extraterrestrials because she specializes in this discipline.
What is linguistics?
Millions dumped buckets of ice water over themselves in 2014 to raise awareness and research funding for this neurodegenerative disease.
What is ALS/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?
Among the first four graduates of the DOST-PCHRD–UP Manila MD-PhD program in 2018, this physician-scientist received the program’s Most Outstanding MD-PhD Dissertation Award.
Who is Fresthel Monica Climacosa?
“Dear Esteemed Researcher, we were impressed by your outstanding work. Submit today and publish in 48 hours!” is classic inbox behavior from this type of questionable publication.
What is a predatory journal?
This Muse track found a second life with moviegoers when it soundtracked the Cullens’ thunderstorm baseball game in Twilight.
What is Supermassive Black Hole?