Adrian Villellas

Adrián Villellas is a computer engineer and entrepreneur in the fields of digital marketing and advertising technology. He has led projects in data analysis, sustainable advertising, and solutions for new audiences. He also contributes to scientific initiatives related to astronomy and space observation. He writes for science, technology, and environmental media outlets, where he makes complex topics and innovative advances accessible to a broad audience.
Night view over the Jurapark Aargau hills, where towns switched off lights against light pollution

Switzerland’s Jurapark Aargau switched off streetlights in 29 towns for one night to launch a campaign against light pollution, which hurts hedgehogs and glow-worms, and a police chief says dimmer towns see no rise in burglaries

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October 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Olive trees at the organic olive oil farm near Tarragona, Spain, in a frame from Arnau Serrado's video

Juan, 29, chose an olive farm near Tarragona, Spain, over a Barcelona apartment costing more than $1,100 a month, and now he sells organic olive oil and grows 80 percent of his vegetables

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October 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Burkina Faso farmer Yacouba Sawadogo standing in front of trees on his land

A Burkina Faso farmer filled zaï pits with manure and grew a nearly 100-acre forest on abandoned land, and a study found termite tunnels made rain soak in 2 to 4 times faster

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October 15, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Uceda castle hill above the Jarama valley, site of the Islamic medina dig in Spain

Uceda, a small town in central Spain, wants volunteers to excavate its hilltop castle and a buried 30-acre Islamic medina, and the archaeologists running the dig offer six weekly spots with breakfast until October 20

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October 15, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Cleanup crew of the Moab uranium tailings project posing in front of a rail shipping container with a 17 million tons banner

Moab uranium tailings have moved by train since 2009, and crews have now hauled 17 million tons from the banks of the Colorado River to a disposal cell 30 miles north at Crescent Junction

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October 15, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Supplies for a soda bottle self-watering planter: bottle, cotton wick, soil and a seedling

Naples Botanical Garden shows how an empty 2-liter soda bottle becomes a self-watering planter with a cotton wick, and a University of Kentucky extension guide says capillary action can lift water about 4 inches

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October 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
An ailing Iberian pear tree in the Doñana Biological Reserve, Spain

Spain’s Doñana National Park lost over 60 percent of adult Iberian pear trees at one site in two decades, and researchers point to deer, wild boar and falling groundwater

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October 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Crane lowering a floating wind turbine with a tilting rotor onto a Dutch lake

TouchWind put a floating wind turbine with a 20-foot rotor that tilts back like a helicopter in storms on a Dutch lake, and the test asks whether wind farms can pack turbines closer together

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October 14, 2026 at 8:44 AM
The restored church pulpit in Ciachcin, Poland, and the 1884 parchment found inside it

Conservators restoring a church pulpit in Ciachcin, Poland, found a parchment the parish priest hid inside it in 1884, and it names the gilders, carpenters and apprentices history usually forgets

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October 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Facade of Dragomirna Monastery in Romania

Dragomirna Monastery in Romania has a Greek decree over 2,000 years old set into its porch floor honoring an architect from Byzantion, and scholars have long argued over which Black Sea city issued it

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October 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Giant resin bee Megachile sculpturalis feeding on purple flowers in southern France

Researchers in Catalonia mapped 150 records of the giant resin bee, the first non-native bee reported in Europe, and found an ornamental street tree mattered at least as much as climate

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October 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Agua Negra Pass in the Andes, on the border between San Juan, Argentina, and Chile

The Agua Negra tunnel plan calls for a custom machine to bore twin 8.6-mile tubes under the Andes, but the $1.5 billion Argentina-Chile project has been stuck since the IDB approved it in 2017

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October 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania

The Energy Department offered Vistra up to $4.2 billion for 433 more megawatts from nuclear uprates at three plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the upgrades could help keep them running 20 years past their licenses

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October 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Map from SkyTruth's global analysis of oil slicks at sea

SkyTruth’s satellite analysis estimates oil slicks cover about 610,000 square miles of ocean each year, and 16 ships appeared to be discharging oil in over 10 percent of their satellite images at sea

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October 12, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Field team carrying a large green anaconda along the Las Piedras River in Peru

A DNA study of anacondas from nine countries split the green anaconda in two, with the northern green anaconda 5.5 percent apart from its twin, and critics went after its name within a month

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October 12, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Aerial view of Lake Peigneur and Jefferson Island in Louisiana

Louisiana’s Lake Peigneur emptied into a salt mine within hours in 1980 while a Texaco rig drilled on the lake, and about 50 miners escaped, but federal investigators never pinned down the exact cause

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October 11, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Gummy bears made with potassium lactate recovered from a recyclable wind turbine resin

Michigan State engineer John Dorgan ate gummy bears made with an ingredient recovered from a resin designed for wind turbine blades, and the same material can also become plexiglass, diaper polymer and new turbine panels

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October 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
The hamlet of Ginostra on the green slopes of Stromboli seen from the sea

A village of a few dozen winter residents on Stromboli reopened what Italian media call the smallest school in Europe for one 6-year-old girl, and her mother says the alternative was splitting the family

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October 11, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Two dishes of strawberries, a few from uncovered plants and many more from plants under Plant Armor fabric

NC State’s Plant Armor fabric helped strawberry plants produce 3.56 times as many berries

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October 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Two Liter of Light volunteers hold a water-filled solar bottle bulb fitted into a sheet of metal roofing

A Brazilian mechanic pushed a water-filled bottle through a roof tile during 2002 blackouts, and lab tests show his solar bottle bulb passes 50 to 70 percent of incoming light and spreads it more evenly

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October 10, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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