MIT Technology Review reveals 2019 list of Innovators Under 35 LATAM

Translation: Everything appears to be impossible until you do it. Earlier this week, the MIT Technology Review published its 2019 list of Latin...

Holberton School Medellín: Training the next generation of software engineers

Holberton School, Medellín. Photo by Sophie Foggin. The Holberton School, first established in San Francisco in 2016, has recently opened a site...

Apollo 11: To the moon on a Boyacá sheep’s back

Apollo 11's Eagle Luna Lander on the moon, 50 years ago today. Photo: NASA Colombian (and pre-Columbian) handiwork finds its place in...

Medellín to host next World Conference of Science Journalists

Members of the Colombian Association of Science Journalism and Communication in Lausanne, Switzerland Last week in Lausanne, Switzerland, it was...

Tunga penetrans: Get to know Colombia’s least favourite skin-burrowing parasite

Once lodged in the skin, the embedded sand-flea can grow up to 2000 times its size in 10 days. Illustration courtesy of Wikicommons Warning: This...

Who peopled South America? New ancient DNA study reveals continent’s first inhabitants

Indigenous Americans as portrayed in Apocalypto. Still courtesy of Touchstone Pictures. The question of migrations--that of how ancient peoples...

Colombia pioneers life-saving Kangaroo care

[caption id="attachment_33229" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Kangaroo Care by Chris Poteet, on Flickr[/caption] The importance of skin-to-skin...

Climate change may increase incidents of dengue, scientists warn

[caption id="attachment_26993" align="aligncenter" width="520"] Mosquito species Aedes aegepti is a vector for the dengue virus. Photo courtesy of...

Flor Fatale: This orange flower is choking Antioquia’s forests

Were it not for its beautiful flower the ojo de poeta would be a nondescript vine that silently choked everything in its path. Instead, the plant...

A symbol of “transformation and force”: Challenges facing the jaguar in Colombia

[caption id="attachment_31135" align="aligncenter" width="696"] Photo by Fernando Trujillo.[/caption] In order to find out more about the jaguar’s...