Science & Technology

In today's blog, we meet Jose Ricardo Campos Mora, a 22-year-old electromechanical engineering student at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology. Jose Ricardo and his team hope to make their Miravalles - 1 mission a reality. In today’s blog...

InvestEggator is a fake turtle egg, printed in 3D and with a GPS inside that allows you to track the location. It is an initiative of Paso Pacífico, a Nicaraguan organization that aims to fight illegal trafficking and protect the...

The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is an international science and education program that provides students and the general public opportunities for contributing to data collection and the scientific process while better understanding ...

Costa Rica stands out for democratizing the use of digital technologies and having Internet access figures of more than 74% of the population, much higher than the regional average, and digital transformation efforts, indicators that favor post-COVID recovery actions.This...

During this month of October 2020, the sky will give us a series of incredible astronomical phenomena, the great protagonist being the Moon with two unique shows of their kind, the Blue Moon and the 'invisible' Super Moon, in...

So, you want to be a science writer? Great! Writing about science is an exciting and creative way to combine storytelling with curiosity. But how do you break into a specialized field like science writing? In this article, we'll...

This week we learn about the upcoming Leolab phased array radar station which will be built next year in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Ed Lu, one of Leolab’s founders and its VP of Strategic Projects has had a long and...

Comet 67P / Churiumov-Gerasimenko has its own aurora borealis, as recorded by instruments of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The European Central Bank (ECB) reported today its preparation to issue a digital euro, to complement the current banknotes. For the member of the Executive Board of the ECB, Fabio Panetta, this measure would be applied when necessary.Major central...

The International Space Station (ISS) had to maneuver this past week to avoid a collision with debris from an old Japanese rocket, the third such maneuver this year, said NASA