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Team led by women turns plantain peels into an alternative to traditional plastic
Every typical Puerto Rican dish contains an essential ingredient: plantain.
Adolfo Rodríguez Velázquez: Explaining Science So That Others Can See Themselves In It
In a Caribbean cave, where light barely enters and silence seems absolute, Dr. Adolfo Rodríguez Velázquez observes, searching…
EnTRUST Life Sciences Accelerator Celebrates Its Fifth Cohort with $375,000 Awarded to Research Projects
The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust (PRSTRT), through its Technology Transfer Office (TTO) and its Research…
The role of the Puerto Rican bee in shade-grown coffee production is highlighted
More than 40 coffee growers and farmers participated in an educational event at Casa Pueblo.
Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust invests more than $1.8 million in local research and entrepreneurship projects
Eleven award-winning researchers receive grants of $150,000 each, and three companies that secured SBIR funding will receive…
Puerto Rico’s first oyster farm is in Culebra: “We have built it from within the community”
Hidden beneath the calm waters of Culebra, at a maximum depth of 40 feet, an initiative aims to transform marine wealth into an…
“We don’t believe in ‘you can’t’”: Technologies developed in Puerto Rico aim to integrate blind students into the world of science
On a monitor, a brightly colored microscope image shows part of the cerebral cortex of a person with advanced Alzheimer’s…
Exotic animals: Over 1,000 specimens placed under DRNA custody in five months
In less than five months, the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA) has captured or received over 1,000…
Identifican especies de un hongo asociado a riesgos respiratorios en casas inundadas tras el huracán María
Un estudio liderado por el Recinto de Ciencias Médicas (RCM) de la
“A second chance at life”: more than 200 birds have been rehabilitated at the Parque de las Ciencias in Bayamón.
Bayamón — Over the past decade, around 210 birds — from multiple species — have been given “a second chance at life” at the…
A Trio of Space Satellites Launch to Study the Sun’s Violent Side
Cape Canaveral, Florida — A group of space weather satellites lifted off Wednesday morning to closely observe solar storms that…
Scientists identify a new species of bee in Puerto Rico.
When a bee approaches, the common reaction is to run, scream, or panic. But a group of researchers decided to do the opposite:…