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Science Protagonists: Puerto Rican discovers insect in Panama and it is named in her honor

Submitted on 4 June 2024 - 1:46pm

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El Nuevo Día

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Marina Reyes Huertas

Entomologist Charluz Arocho Rosario made the discovery of the new species of stink bug during an expedition to the Central American country in which the researcher was searching for beetles.


The entomologist Charluz Arocho Rosario made the discovery of the new species of stink bug during an expedition to the Central American country in which the researcher was dedicated to the search for beetles.

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Para la Naturaleza inaugurates the Arboretum Miguel A. “Papo” Vives Heyliger

Submitted on 30 May 2024 - 11:06am

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Located in the Hacienda la Esperanza Nature Reserve in Manatí, the arboretum has more than 1,000 trees, shrubs and plants native and endemic to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

 

Manatí, PR- Sheltered under the shade of the branches of a violet tree, between moments of shared laughter and tears of emotion, family, colleagues and friends of botanist Miguel A. “Papo” Vives Heyliger, celebrated the inauguration of the arboretum that bears his name at the Hacienda La Esperanza Nature Reserve (HLE), in Manatí.

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Girl creates low-cost three-dimensional (3D) prosthetic hand in support of the community

Submitted on 28 May 2024 - 2:25pm

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Periódico El Sol de Puerto Rico

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San Juan, May 20, 2024 - Lorena Pachiardi, a ninth-grade student, created and developed a prototype of a low-cost prosthetic hand on a three-dimensional (3D) printer. The project was carried out as part of the “Seeds of Success” program of the non-profit organization Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR), which promotes STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education for girls in seventh through ninth grades in public, private and homeschoolers' schools around the island.

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SCIENTISTS ESTABLISH DIFFERENCES IN THE NUMBER OF NEURONS IN SIX SPECIES OF BORICUA LIZARDS

Submitted on 28 May 2024 - 2:16pm

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El Nuevo Día

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Wilson González Espada

Neurons are one of the main components of the brain and play a key role in its processes, from coordinating limb movement to memorizing important dates and planning actions. For example, as you read this story, your nerve cells encode the information, make a judgment about whether you find it interesting or boring, and maybe even make you remember a “brain-burner” test.

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Empresa boricua recibe galardón “Uno con el Ambiente” por sus soluciones de sostenibilidad para las industrias

Submitted on 6 May 2024 - 11:27am

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San Juan, Puerto Rico (martes, 30 de abril de 2024) — La ingeniera Geannette M. Siberón y su empresa Environmental & Safety Engineering Solutions (EnvSafe PR) recibieron el premio “Uno con el Ambiente” de FirstBank y un fondo de capital semilla como parte de la competencia de negocios del Grupo Guayacán, por diseñar soluciones que permiten a las industrias de manufactura reducir su huella ambiental para lograr sus metas de sustentabilidad y mantenerse competitivos en el mercado global.

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RUM professor is co-author of article published in the journal Science that sheds new light on the evolutionary history of snakes and lizards

Submitted on 8 March 2024 - 11:37am

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Timothy J. Colston, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biology and director of the Genomic Resources Collection at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Mayagüez Campus (RUM), is one of the co-authors of an article recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Science, which provides a new analysis of the evolutionary history of all snakes and lizards using genomic-scale DNA sequences and fossil data.

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UPR Aguadilla inaugurates Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory

Submitted on 8 March 2024 - 11:30am

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Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Aguadilla

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The laboratory has been functional for a year and students have presented their research findings inside and outside Puerto Rico.

(Aguadilla, P.R. - February 22, 2024) Given the multiple proposals approved in the area of research in the sciences at the University of Puerto Rico in Aguadilla (UPRAg), the Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory was inaugurated yesterday, thanks to the efforts of various grant funds directed by Dr. Juliana Pérez Laspiur, principal investigator and director of said space.

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HACU and USDA Agricultural Export Market Challenge winning team announced

Submitted on 5 March 2024 - 8:00pm

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The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and the United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service have announced the selection of Inter American University of Puerto Rico - Aguadilla as the winning team of the Agricultural Export Market Challenge.

Unraveling the ancient secrets of our caves

Submitted on 21 February 2024 - 3:27pm

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Under the leadership of Professor Ángel Acosta Colón, students from the UPR at Arecibo collaborate with diverse research on caves in Puerto Rico.

Arecibo - Under the leadership of Professor Ángel Acosta Colón, more than 100 students who have participated in his research course at the Physics-Chemistry Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPRA) have immersed themselves in the past few years in projects ranging from mapping to the search for fossils, but above all they have dedicated themselves to understanding a mysterious world: the country's caves.

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Puerto Rican Marcos Berrios will graduate as an astronaut in March: "A great milestone for Puerto Rican science".

Submitted on 20 February 2024 - 3:07pm

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El Nuevo Día

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Génesis Ibarra Váquez

Starting in March, Puerto Rico will have a new astronaut in the form of Marcos Berríos, who at the beginning of that month will graduate as part of the generation of candidates for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Artemis program, becoming the second Puerto Rican space explorer after Joseph "Joe" Acabá.

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