SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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Latin America Hears Pope’s Silence Plea as Phones Feed Addiction, Steal Sleep
Pope Leo XIV asked Catholics to turn down screens for Lent, make room for silence, and visit the lonely. In…
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Uruguay Virtual Game School Reduces Need to Relocate for Tech Careers
In Uruguay, a virtual game school run as a cooperative is challenging the old rule that talent must relocate to…
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Ecuador’s Galápagos Tortoises Return to Floreana and Stir New Questions
For the first time in more than one hundred eighty years, young giant tortoises are moving across Floreana again. Their…
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Dominican Republic Searches for Enriquillo, the Continent’s First Guerrillero and Historical Figure
Archaeologists in the Dominican Republic are searching for Enriquillo, the Taíno leader recognized as the Americas' first guerrillero. At a…
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Costa Rica Unearths Giant Sloth and Mastodon Fossils, Rewrites Memory
In Costa Rica's Cartago province, a confidential dig has pulled giant sloth and mastodon remains from layered sediment after a…
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Latin America’s Regulatory Patchwork: Why Some Countries Legalize Online Casinos While Others Pretend Not to See Them
Online gambling in Latin America is not one market. It is four parallel universes stitched together by politics, taxes, culture,…
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Peru’s Ancient Guano Farms Offer Climate Lessons for Today
Thirteen miles off Peru's coast, guano piles once fueled empires and budgets. New PLOS One research traces seabird fertilizer on…
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Brazilian Lula Targets Online Bets as Poor Households Bleed Quietly
At a public investment event near São Paulo, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned that betting apps have turned…
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Ecuador Uses Technology to Trace the Hands Behind Toquilla Hats
Inside a small museum in Montecristi, visitors lift virtual reality goggles and step into rural weaving communities. Ecuador is betting…
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Plus Ultra Flight: 100 Years of the Historic Air Journey Linking Spain and Buenos Aires
A century ago, Argentina watched a fragile hydroplane arrive from Europe after conquering the South Atlantic, marking a pivotal milestone…
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