After outcry, Puerto Rico’s legislature spares statistical agency
Critics of consolidation plan laud preservation of agency’s independence
Latin America
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Can this environmental engineer—now elected mayor—fix Mexico City?
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo promises to tackle a water crisis and bolster public transit -
The Maya civilization used chocolate as money
Art suggests that cacao beans were a valued currency -
South America’s Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil War doctors
Survival rate was a remarkable 80%, compared with just 50% during the American Civil War -
Chile, keen to become a knowledge society, creates a ministry of science
Scientists say success will depend on budget and leadership -
Colombian scientists race to study once-forbidden territory before it is lost to development—or new conflict
Peace deal with guerrillas opens up research opportunities -
If you listen closely, the drumbeats of Amazonian tribes sound like human speech
Millisecond differences in rhythm may also explain how we hear at cocktail parties -
Latin America’s lost histories revealed in modern DNA
Clues to forgotten migrations of Filipinos, Sephardic Jews emerge -
Some dogs were royalty, others were dinner in ancient Mayan culture
Study provides earliest evidence of animal domestication and treatment in early Latin America -
Ousted from ESO, Brazilian astronomy will be ‘strangled,’ says president of the Brazilian Astronomical Society
Nation had pledged €270 million to the European Southern Observatory, but never made payments -
Iconic Arecibo radio telescope saved by university consortium
University of Central Florida agrees to find money needed to take over operations -
Genes of ‘extinct’ Caribbean islanders found in living people
1000-year-old skeleton’s DNA counters myth that Taino population was completely wiped out -
U.S. diplomats in Cuba have unusual brain syndrome, but there’s no proof they were attacked, study says
Academic team invited by Department of State scanned brains of diplomats and gave them cognitive tests -
Critics blast move to dismember Puerto Rico’s statistical agency
Governor contends that proposal would restore credibility to collection of statistics on island -
Dam building binge in Amazon will shred ecosystems, scientists warn
Decline of goliath catfish emblematic of habitat fragmentation -
How a Mormon lawyer transformed archaeology in Mexico—and ended up losing his faith
The scientific legacy of a quest to prove the Book of Mormon
