SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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Doctors of the Amazon: Heal Teeth, Restore Sight, and Defend the Forest with AI and 3D Printers
An itinerant brigade of dentists and eye doctors pitched their tents deep in Brazil's Xingu, treating cavities without anesthesia and…
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Drones, Dairy, and a Denomination: How Turrialba Is Digitizing Costa Rica’s Countryside
On a small dairy outside Turrialba, pasture isn't guessed anymore—it's measured from the air. As Costa Rica chases productivity without…
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Cuba’s Atlantis? Why the Lost City Legend Still Waits for Proof
For nearly a quarter-century, whispers of a "sunken city" off Cuba's Guanahacabibes Peninsula have floated between science and myth. New…
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Mexico’s AI Gold Rush Meets a Thirsty Reality: Can a Colonial City Power the Cloud Without Draining the Well?
From the highway, Querétaro still looks like a painter’s trick of the light—the ochre of 18th-century stone punched against a…
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Ecuador’s Amber Windows Rewrite the Story of Flowers, Insects, and Where Life’s Partnerships Began
For more than a century, the tale of how flowers and insects struck their great evolutionary bargain has been told…
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Guanaquerx the Robot Rewrites Andean Liberation on Four Legs
A shaggy robot dressed in Andean textiles has retraced San Martín's independence route across the Andes. Named Guanaquerx, it fuses…
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Technology’s Hand in Reclaiming Amazon Voices: Indigenous Media Turns Silence Into Power
In the Amazon, microphones now capture chainsaws where birds once sang. Indigenous storytellers are recording that shift, broadcasting it worldwide,…
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Latin America’s Digital Non-Alignment Gains Ground in the AI Crossfire
Washington offers AI built for dominance, Beijing touts cooperation and infrastructure sharing. Latin America, squeezed between standards, chips, and geopolitics,…
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Peru’s Peñico Discovery Shows How the Caral Civilization Faced Crisis With Cooperation, Not Conquest
High on the windblown slopes of Peru's Supe Valley, archaeologists have unearthed Peñico, a 3,800-year-old city tied to the Caral…
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Latin America Watches AI’s Empire Extract Power, Data, And Water
A beat reporter follows the wires and the water lines, not the hype. In Wired interviews, Karen Hao argues today's…
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