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Looking for life beyond the Earth

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Marieli Collazo Vega

Dr. Abel Méndez, professor of Physics and Chemistry at Univerity of Puerto Rico in Arecibo, has created a guide to habitable planets beyond the Earth.

To access his lab page: www. http://phl.upr.edu/
 
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Dire situation at the Department of Agriculture

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Gerardo Cordero / gerardo.cordero@gfrmedia.com

The main goal of the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture is to foster food security. This task is however difficulted by a lack of funding, agricultural statistics, or progress reports from previous years.

This article is originally in spanish. To read it you can click on ESPAÑOL at the top right corner of your page. You can also contact our News Editor, Mónica Feliú-Mójer (moefeliu@cienciapr.org).

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Support for green roads

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Andrea Martínez / amartinez@elnuevodia.com

The combination of recycled asphalt with new paving technologies will create savings for the government while being an eco-friendly alternative.

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Casa Pueblo publishes an eBook about scientific studies in Vieques

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Researchers from Casa Pueblo have pusblished an eBook compiling 14 years of environmental scientific studies conducted in Vieques after the Marina left.

The eBook will be available in iBooks, ePub, Mobi, Kindle and Nook formats.
 
 
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Promoting conservation through art at the EEUPR

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David Cordero Mercado

The students form the Elemetary School of the University of Puerto Rico (EEUPR), built an artisitc wall from recycled materials to promote conservation of natural resources. They will be participating in Europe in a competition.

 

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In contact with marine life

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Rut N. Tellado Domenech / rtellado@elnuevodia.com


Students from the Edmundo del Valle Cruz School in Río Grande particpated in the opening of the Marine Life Intreractive Aquarium at Bahía Beach Resort & Golf Club in Río Grande.

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30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV

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This article summarizes the contributions of the Virology Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico's Medical Sciences Campus to the understanding of the HIV virus.

The original version of this article is in Spanish. You can read it by clicking on the word ESPAÑOL at the top right corner. You can also contact our News Editor Mónica Feliú-Mójer (moefeliu@cienciapr.org).

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Alliance for Sciences

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Rut N. Tellado Domenech / rtellado@elnuevodia.com

Amgen and El Nuevo Día Educador has joined efforts to create an alliance that helps promotes sciences and science teachers.

 

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