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.
Older driver behind the wheel, illustrating how states are changing license renewal rules and testing for drivers over 70.

There is no federal law taking licenses from drivers over 70, but many states are changing their tests

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January 22, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Mother and daughter pose outside a seven room house built from thousands of recycled glass bottles in Itamaracá, Brazil

A mother and daughter in Brazil built a seven-room house with 8,000 glass bottles collected from beaches

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January 21, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Feral brumby horses grazing in Kosciuszko National Park after population cuts in Australia’s Snowy Mountains

Australia did the unthinkable in Kosciuszko: in just 12 months, it reduced the number of wild horses from 17,000 to 3,000… and the park is already changing color (literally)

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January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Gold coins spill from a rusty container in a freshly plowed Kentucky field as a farmer searches nearby.

A Kentucky farmer finds more than 800 Civil War-era coins worth over $3 million in his field

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January 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Worker loads fried chicken into trays at Frenchy’s in Houston, where two locations were recently deauthorized

Two Houston Frenchy’s Chicken locations lose the right to use the brand for not meeting standards

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January 21, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Thousands of small orange-and-black bumblebee catfish cluster and inch up wet rock beside a waterfall in Brazil.

It was first spotted by environmental police, and a week later science arrived. The video of orange-and-black fish climbing wet rock is already being called a historic discovery

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January 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Researcher uses a laptop in a grassy field while a utility vehicle and equipment sit in the background

Beneath the lawns in your neighborhood and cornfields lies a gigantic carbon “bank,” and a new study suggests that in some soils, it is emptying ten times faster than previously assumed

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January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Geologists examine drill core samples from the Wangu gold field in Hunan, China

China drills beneath the Wangu gold field and discovers a “treasure” of more than 1,000 tons that could be hidden 3,000 meters underground

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January 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM
U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter flying over the ocean during carrier operations

Two United States Navy aircraft plunged into the sea within just 30 minutes off an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, setting off alarm bells

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January 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Illustration of a woolly mammoth standing on Arctic ice, symbolizing a study that reclassified “young mammoth” bones as whales.

The story seemed perfect: for 70 years, these vertebrae were touted as the “youngest mammoth” in Alaska, and the twist comes when science decides to review them from scratch

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January 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of a California apartment complex with large rooftop solar arrays covering multiple flat buildings.

The California Supreme Court has reopened the rooftop solar fight, leaving uncertainty over whether NEM 3.0 credit cuts will survive the next legal challenge

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January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Workers in protective suits stand in a flooded facility, using tools to clean up standing water after a coastal flood or storm surge.

A national map identifies 5,500 “hot spots” along the US coastline, and the danger is not the water itself, but what the water can carry with it

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January 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Two workers walk beside a massive pile of used tires repurposed for rubber-modified asphalt roads

Mountains of tires become “black gold” for roads: rubber-coated asphalt promises greater durability and less noise, but raises environmental concerns

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January 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM
For the first time on video: orcas and dolphins “team up” to hunt chinook salmon off the coast of Vancouver Island

For the first time on video: orcas and dolphins “team up” to hunt chinook salmon off the coast of Vancouver Island

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January 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Map of the Moon’s far side showing red fault lines, revealing young geological scars that suggest active tectonics

The Moon is not “dead,” and a new map of the far side reveals young scars that could still be shifting today

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January 18, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Shallow woodland vernal pool with branches and leaf litter, fish-free water that supports frog eggs in spring

He dug a 60 cm “pond” in the garden, and within weeks, something unexpected happened: five groups of frog eggs appeared… and the yard went from being a useless lawn to an amphibian nursery

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January 18, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Aircela’s rooftop machine in Manhattan converting air into gasoline using direct air capture and renewable electricity.

A New York startup says it can already make gasoline from air on a rooftop, and it demonstrated the process in Manhattan with a machine about the size of a refrigerator

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January 18, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Aerial view of sand-filled artificial islands linked by a narrow causeway, built by dredging in the South China Sea.

China has managed to build entirely new islands from scratch by pumping sand from the seabed day after day for more than a decade

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January 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM
A Russian reconnaissance aircraft flies over the sea while two fighter jets escort it during an interception over the Baltic region.

A Russian aircraft flew in silence over the Baltic Sea, forcing Germany and Sweden to scramble fighter jets amid a month of heightened tension

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January 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Close-up macro image of a purple sea urchin with long golden-brown spines radiating from its round body against a black background.

A strange animal with no head or face turns out to be “almost all head” at the genetic level, and the idea sounds absurd until you see how it is organized inside

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January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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