Science & Technology
Chile, Mexico, and Costa Rica the most innovative countries in Latin America
This year has been the gateway to innovation in many countries. With the arrival of the health emergency due to COVID-19, many sectors have been forced to innovate or face bankruptcy. Now, according to the recently published 2020 Global...
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Leo Camacho: Costa Rica Space App Champion Recognized by NASA
Learn about Space App CR 2020 coming up this OctoberMeet multi award winning Costa Rican tech educator and innovator Leo Camacho. Leo grew up in San Jose and completed his elementary and high school education at Saint Claire and...
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Costa Rican Biologist Wins Prestigious Award for Studying Dragonflies
The nature that surrounds us is full of mysteries and, as a society, we have only discovered a little part of it. One of them is that female dragonflies of the genus Ischnura imitate the blue color, characteristic of males, to avoid mating when they have not reached sexual maturity
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3 Electric Buses Will Arrive This Month to Costa Rica
Three electric buses will enter the country during September to carry out tests in Tres Ríos, Desamparados, and Alajuela. These tests will give indications of how to electrify the bus fleet in 2021. This was confirmed by the Energy...
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Costa Rica’s Revolutionary Contribution to Space Exploration
A company from Costa Rica, chaired by former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Díaz, developed a plasma engine to propel rockets. The company Ad Astra Rocket completed one of the crucial tests of the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Engine (VASIMR),...
Health
Bacteria Can Survive in Outer Space
Experts have long talked about the different bacteria that exist, their effects, and how long they remain active. There is one that has become popular through research, it is called radio-resistant Deinococcus
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LeRoy Davis Larry Jr: From Jupiter to Costa Rica and Beyond
Costa Rica is blessed with a very eclectic and diverse Expat community including many who live quietly under the radar while doing amazing things. Earlier this year I had the privilege of connecting with one such expat, US citizen LeRoy...
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Elon Musk’s “Neuralink”: Billionaire Entrepreneur’s Latest Breakthrough in His Plan to Connect Our Brains to Computers
Can you imagine being able to save your memories on a computer, directly from your brain, and see them again whenever you want?
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Facebook Opens Registration to its “Horizon Virtual Reality World”
Facebook opened registrations to test the beta version of its virtual reality world called “Facebook Horizon” and the company announced that
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Which are the Latin American Countries with the best (and worst) Internet Connection Via Cell Phone
More and more people in the world are connecting to the internet via their cell phones, but the experience could not be more different if one lives in Costa Rica or Uruguay.Uruguay has the highest connection speed in...
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Comunales Nicoya Celebrates Inspiring Women in the Second Edition of “Blue Ideas”
In commemoration of Mother's Day, the Nicoya Azul Canton brand of the Municipality of Nicoya held the second edition...