SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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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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Brazil’s Discovery of CBD In a Common Shrub Could Reshape the Medical Cannabis Debate
Brazilian scientists say they have detected cannabidiol (CBD) inside Trema micrantha, a hardy shrub often dismissed as a weed. The…
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