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.
Water released through outlet works at Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River.

Glen Canyon Dam cools the Colorado River to stop invasive fish, a counterintuitive strategy that worked through 2024 and beyond

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August 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Free-range laying hens roaming on grass around a mobile hen house.

Organic eggs across the UK generate twice the carbon of conventional farms, a finding that challenges the environmental grocery aisle

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August 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Mature trees form a dense canopy over a residential street in Chicago, shading the road, sidewalks, and parked cars.

Chicago’s mature trees cut peak temperatures by up to eight degrees on hot days, a cooling effect that prevents heat deaths across neighborhoods with canopy coverage

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August 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Edgeboro Landfill in East Brunswick, New Jersey, where researchers monitored methane emissions over multiple seasons.

New Jersey landfill emitted five times as much methane in 2023 as officially reported, exposing a significant gap in environmental accounting

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August 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
567-million-year-old fossil site in Canada where early animals lived and moved across the seafloor

Scientists have discovered fossils of creatures that lived 567 million years ago in remote mountains in Canada, and some of them were already capable of moving across the seafloor even though they didn’t even have mouths

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August 9, 2026 at 2:12 PM
A critically endangered Malayan pangolin walks across a moss-covered log in its forest habitat.

A two-hundred-million-dollar biodiversity pledge protects one hundred threatened species across thirty countries, reshaping how the wealthiest donors approach extinction prevention

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August 9, 2026 at 12:35 PM
An orca swims with a sharp-tail sunfish during a predation event in the Gulf of California.

Orcas smash dead sunfish with precise timing in the Gulf of California, breaking them apart into pieces their young can eat without difficulty

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August 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
JWST image of MRG-M0138 magnified by gravitational lensing, revealing a hidden supermassive black hole.

Six billion Suns weigh a hidden black hole in the young universe, revealed by how its gravity tugs on the surrounding stars in a distant galaxy

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August 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Traveler caring for a rescued pig at a Hawaii animal sanctuary offering free housing to volunteers

A Hawaii animal sanctuary is offering free housing to travelers, but in return they must spend 30 hours a week feeding, cleaning and caring for rescued farm animals

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August 7, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Make Sunsets team prepares a weather balloon for a solar geoengineering experiment using sulfur dioxide.

In 2022, a California startup released sulfur dioxide balloons over Mexico to test ‘cooling credits,’ and the backlash pushed Mexico to move to block solar geoengineering experiments

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August 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
DC converter and bidirectional inverter equipment inside Purdue University’s solar nanogrid test home

Scientists directly connected the solar panels, battery, and heat pump of a 208-square-meter home and discovered that the usual path of the electricity was causing a daily waste of energy

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August 5, 2026 at 3:41 PM
A Florida homeowner covers a dry front lawn with overlapping cardboard sheets before adding mulch and native pollinator plants.

It all started when a Florida homeowner had some old cardboard boxes he was going to throw away and ended up transforming a withered lawn into a garden full of butterflies, bees, birds, and edible plants that requires almost no maintenance

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August 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Fragmented stone stele linked to Assyrian King Ashurbanipal during excavation at the Shamash Gate in ancient Nineveh, Iraq.

A carved monument tied to Assyrian King Ashurbanipal has been recovered at Bab Shamash, with royal images and cuneiform writing preserved on the stone stele

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August 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Artist's impression of the rocky exoplanet LHS 1140 b orbiting its red dwarf star with an extended atmosphere.

Astronomers found helium in the atmosphere of LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years from Earth, the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet orbiting another star

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August 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Wild Iberian rabbit (Oryctolagus algirus) in its natural habitat on the Iberian Peninsula.

Scientists split the Iberian rabbit from the European rabbit after 2 million years apart, and the newly named Oryctolagus algirus is already vanishing from western Iberia

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August 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Mixed forest in France undergoing reforestation as part of national forest renewal efforts.

France promised a billion trees in ten years, and its Council of State has now struck down the decree that paid for it, for skipping public consultation

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August 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Computer rendering of the JetZero Z4 blended-wing aircraft in Japan Airlines livery flying above clouds.

The aircraft, designed to replace the traditional tube-and-wing configuration, will seat 250 passengers and have a range of nearly 5,800 miles, though it still faces several major uncertainties

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August 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Wind turbines standing near a military radar installation in the United States.

The Pentagon has put 155 wind projects on hold, and the reason is not the turbines but what military radars may fail to see

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August 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Illegal agricultural plastic waste dump near greenhouses in Boqueras Altas, Almería, Spain.

One plastic-covered plot in Almería is exposing the hidden cost of Europe’s greenhouse vegetables, and the waste has been piling up for more than a decade

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August 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A rescued beluga whale is carefully lifted into its new habitat at SeaWorld San Antonio after being relocated from Marineland of Canada.

Thirty beluga whales were left behind at a closed marine park, and the first rescue trip has already ended in Texas

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July 31, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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