SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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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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Paraguay Sings Again as Lost Guaraní Verses Find a Digital Home
A forgotten literary magazine has been revived in Paraguay, bringing thousands of poems and songs in Guaraní, Spanish, and Jopara…
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Tiwanaku Temple Hiding in Plain Sight Rewrites Maps in Bolivia
On a windswept Bolivian plain, archaeologists stumbled onto a temple where none should be—a massive Tiwanaku-style complex hidden beneath centuries…
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Chilean Huemul Comeback Hints at Hidden Herds Across Patagonia
Out of Patagonia's fog, the shy silhouette of the huemul deer has reappeared in places long thought empty. Two recent…
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Mexico’s Cafeteria Revolution: Inside the App That’s Rewriting School Lunch
In classrooms across Mexico, a quiet transformation is underway: children are eating fewer sweets and more fruit, not because of…
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Mexican Caribbean Turns Seaweed Crisis into Fuel, Building Panels, and Carbon Credits
On the beaches of Quintana Roo, the tide brings more than tourists. In 2025, record waves of sargassum threaten to…
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Supercorals of the Galápagos Fight Back—And Could Save a Reef, a Coastline, and a Way of Life
Off Isabela's volcanic shores, teams of divers are hand-sewing coral fragments to underwater nurseries, betting that these rugged survivors—born of…
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Amazon Sandbar Transforms into a Living Sea of Giant River Turtles
At dawn on the Guaporé River, the sand comes alive—not with ripples or wind, but with the heaving shells of…
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