SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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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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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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