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.
Engineers in a clean room lower the gold-colored MOXIE instrument into the Perseverance rover chassis

Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center modeled a Mars propellant plant turning Martian air and buried ice into 300 metric tons of methane and oxygen, and power generation was 59 percent of its landed mass

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October 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Strawberry guava leaves covered with small galls made by the biocontrol insect Tectococcus ovatus

Invasive strawberry guava has spread across Hawaii since it arrived in 1825, and researchers used drones to drop a tiny Brazilian insect on it nearly five times faster than ground crews

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October 10, 2026 at 6:28 AM
A gray wolf standing in deep snow in a winter forest

Isle Royale wolves were rebuilt from 19 animals, and one brother-and-sister pair produced at least 12 pups, yet a five-year study still gives the population a better than 80 percent chance of lasting 20 years

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October 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Two coronagraph operators look up at a wall of monitors showing telemetry in a control room

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope held steady for eight hours and saw its first coronagraph starlight

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October 9, 2026 at 7:49 AM
People inspect the timbers of a shipwreck section exposed on a Nantucket beach

Nantucket shipwreck uncovered by a nor’easter is not the 1884 Warren Sawyer after all

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October 9, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Aerial view of the GICON high-altitude wind turbine in Schipkau, Germany, rising above a wind farm

World’s tallest wind turbine reaches 1,198 feet in eastern Germany, with power tests next

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October 8, 2026 at 4:58 PM
A blacktip shark swimming in clear blue water in the Bahamas

Blacktip sharks heard sounds from 243 feet away and turned away from the source

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October 8, 2026 at 12:34 PM
An olive ridley sea turtle resting in the sand beside its nest near Seal Beach, California

Two olive ridley sea turtles laid the first sea turtle nests ever recorded on the U.S. West Coast in Orange County, and biologists moved 204 eggs indoors before Hurricane Polo’s surf arrived

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October 8, 2026 at 6:33 AM
A dense cloud of starlings swirls in a gray sky above the domed roof of Eastbourne Pier in England

Thousands of starlings are forming huge shape-shifting clouds over Poland, and a Polish ornithologist says cleverer birds can lead less clever ones to feeding grounds where they are more exposed to attack

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October 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Pipes, separators and buildings of the Wairakei geothermal power plant seen from a lookout in New Zealand

The Wairakei geothermal power station, the first to run on flash steam, is being replaced

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October 7, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Two people kneel on pavement measuring a long Burmese python stretched along the ground

Florida pays python hunters up to $30 an hour plus $50 for each snake and $25 for every extra foot, and one contractor warns it is unrealistic to move there thinking you can make a living doing this

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October 7, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Moss-covered stone walls of an abandoned house among trees and fallen leaves

An abandoned village in Galicia with 12 stone houses was listed for 0 euros, but the broker says the deal is a 50-year concession and the town puts the bill for roads, water and power at up to €3 million

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October 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
A small spotted wild cat with large dark markings standing on leaf litter in a forest setting

A tiny spotted cat that a Bolivian man fed noodles, rice and eggs, thinking it was a kitten, turned out to be Leopardus tilcayo, the first new wild cat species scientists have described in more than a century

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October 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
A woman standing still and looking downcast in the middle of a busy crowd

According to psychology, loneliness combined with social isolation may cost men about 5.8 years free of depression or anxiety after 50, and in a study of 277,489 adults healthy habits narrowed the gap for isolation but not for loneliness

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October 6, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Silver bars, rings and cut silver packed inside an old clay pot

Someone laying a patio in northern Denmark dug up the country’s largest known Viking silver hoard, 18.5 kilograms of bracelets, bars and coins, and one bar is scratched with a runic word experts have never seen before

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October 6, 2026 at 6:33 AM
A streaked brown shorebird standing on dry grass

Only about one in three Arctic tundra shorebirds come back to the same breeding area each year, against two in three elsewhere, and at the tundra’s northern edge it falls to one in ten, a Max Planck study found

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October 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Okanagan Lake with a rounded hill on the far shore under a clear sky

Someone paid C$200 at a yard sale in southern Ontario for E.J. Hughes’ Okanagan Lake, and the painting sold for C$402,500 at auction in 2007, months after the reclusive British Columbia painter died

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October 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Three sarcophagi in a vaulted marble chamber, with a gray-green stone sarcophagus on the left

Norway’s King Harald V now lies in a boat-shaped sarcophagus carved from olivine, a green Norwegian rock that can bind CO2, but no one has measured how much carbon the royal tomb will actually take up

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October 5, 2026 at 8:46 AM
A diver hangs a branch of coral on an underwater coral tree nursery

A Florida father and daughter started growing staghorn coral for a 4-H project around 2000, and after a 2023 heatwave killed 98% to 100% of wild staghorn and elkhorn in the Keys, the nurseries that grew out of it are banking the survivors’ genes

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October 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Detail of a Paracas ceremonial mantle with rows of embroidered figures

Archaeologists measured 200 obsidian points from Paracas sites in southern Peru and found every complete one was a spearthrower dart, and through four violent centuries nobody there seems to have bothered with the bow

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October 4, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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