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.
The Treasure of Villena, a 3,000 year old Bronze Age hoard from Spain containing meteorite iron artifacts

In 1963, a 3,000-year-old “treasure” appeared in Spain: we now know that it contains material that is not from our world

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March 2, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Paola Peña inside a deep sea submersible during her 7,592 meter descent into the Atacama Trench

Chilean geologist Paola Peña dives 7,592 meters into the Atacama Trench to study the origin of earthquakes and tsunamis

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March 2, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup truck parked outdoors, model facing sales decline and multiple recalls in 2025

Forbes calls the Cybertruck “the new Ford Edsel” as sales fall and recalls pile up

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March 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Aerial view of the Lianghekou hydropower dam on the Yalong River in Tibet, rising 295 meters above the valley.

China has just launched a hydroelectric “beast” in Tibet that generates 11 billion kWh per year, and whose dam, at 295 meters high, is almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower

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March 1, 2026 at 7:32 AM
NASA radar image revealing Camp Century, a Cold War nuclear base buried beneath Greenland’s ice sheet

It was buried under 30 meters of polar ice and had been missing since 1967: NASA unexpectedly finds an old secret nuclear test site in the middle of the Arctic

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March 1, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Illustration of asteroid 2024 YR4 approaching the Moon in a potential 2032 impact scenario

NASA and China warn that the Moon could be hit by a 60-meter rock and that the impact could trigger a meteor storm that would knock out the Internet, satellites, and GPS for years

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February 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Archaeological remains of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio basilica uncovered beneath Piazza Andrea Costa

Excavating beneath an Italian square, they finally uncover Vitruvius’ lost building: the basilica described in 19 BC comes to life in the 21st century

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February 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM
CHIEF1900 hypergravity centrifuge installed underground at Zhejiang University, designed to simulate extreme gravitational forces.

China is building a giant hypergravity centrifuge capable of accelerating processes that take centuries to complete in nature

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February 26, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Open pit view of the Dadonggou gold mine in Liaoning, where China identified a 1,444 ton gold deposit.

China finds 1,444 tons of gold at Liaoning’s Dadonggou mine, its largest gold discovery since 1949

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February 26, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Chinese researchers covering Dagu Glacier with white geotextile blankets to slow ice melting in Sichuan

In 2019, China did something that seems crazy: “cover” glaciers with giant blankets. Now, in 2026, data shows how much they actually slow down melting

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February 26, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Unitree G1 humanoid robot walking on snow at -47.4 °C in Xinjiang during an extreme cold endurance test

A Chinese humanoid robot has just made history at -47.4 °C, taking more than 130,000 steps on the ice in Xinjiang and even “drawing” an Olympic emblem

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February 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Collage showing plastic pollution in the ocean, including a sea turtle entangled in fishing net and hermit crabs using plastic as shelter

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is becoming a floating continent populated by marine creatures

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February 25, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Ripe cloudberries growing in an Arctic bog, the octoploid berry studied for its complex hybrid genome.

It wasn’t just a rare fruit: the humble molt that Nansen took to the North Pole in 1893 could be one of the most complex natural hybrids ever studied, with DNA from at least three extinct species and an evolutionary history written in eight chromosomes that still baffles geneticists

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February 25, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Cargo ship facing a massive 35-meter rogue wave in the Pacific as satellites monitor extreme sea conditions

Satellites detect megawaves up to 35 meters high in the Pacific, and the data is concerning because they appear even without “super hurricanes” involved

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February 25, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Half moon pits dug in the Sahara to capture rainwater and restore degraded desert land

They tried to slow down the advance of the Sahara with millions of bees… and they “melted” at over 70 °C. However, the solution that works is not biology, but geometry on the ground

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February 25, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Per Geijer rare earth deposit near Kiruna in northern Sweden, operated by LKAB.

China processes around 90% of the world’s rare earths, but Sweden has just pulled an “ace up its sleeve” with 2.2 million tons of oxides in Per Geijer

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February 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
12-year-old Texas student beside a homemade nuclear fusion device after detecting neutrons

A 12-year-old boy in Texas spends four years building a nuclear fusion device at home and manages to detect real neutrons

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February 24, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Quartz vein with gold deposits in dark rock, showing how earthquakes may help form giant gold nuggets

Earthquakes could be behind the formation of giant gold nuggets

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February 24, 2026 at 5:36 AM
10-year-old boy in Rostock programming a small educational robot with block-based code on a laptop during a MikroMINT technology workshop

A 10-year-old boy from Rostock is already programming his own browser in Python with a “history limit” and everything, while others are still learning how to browse safely

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February 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Satellite view of Jubbah oasis in Saudi Arabia’s Nafud Desert showing circular green irrigated fields amid orange dunes

NASA photographs a desert and finds mysterious circles in the heart of Saudi Arabia

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February 23, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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