Sonia Ramírez

Journalist with more than 13 years of experience in radio and digital media. I have developed and led content on culture, education, international affairs, and trends, with a global perspective and the ability to adapt to diverse audiences. My work has had international reach, bringing complex topics to broad audiences in a clear and engaging way.
The full SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy stack standing beside the launch tower at Starbase under a pink and orange sunset sky

Starship flew for the 13th time with a clean splashdown, but the Mars test that matters most still has not happened

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September 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
A tan pug mother lying on a pink paw-print blanket while her two black-and-white spotted puppies nurse beside her

A Modesto porch hid a pug mother and two cow-spotted puppies, but California heat made the rescue urgent

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September 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Workers handle recycled glass sand during a coastal restoration project in Louisiana.

New Orleans is turning discarded bottles into coastal sand, and each crushed glass load can help rebuild a shrinking wetland

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September 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Semi-truck carrying an oversized concrete utility pole base beside damage to an Oklahoma Turnpike bridge.

One unpermitted truck load hit six Oklahoma bridges in a single trip, and the mistake cost nearly half a million dollars

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September 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Platypterygius australis ichthyosaur fossil displayed at Kronosaurus Korner in Queensland.

A Queensland fossil preserved an ichthyosaur’s last meal, but the hunter soon became food for something even larger

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September 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Large Wels catfish swimming in the waters near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

A dark shape under Chernobyl’s green water went viral as a mutant catfish, but the real transformation began when the pumps stopped

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September 10, 2026 at 11:07 AM
ACUA Ocean Pioneer uncrewed SWATH vessel operating in rough seas.

A 46-foot robot boat found a distress beacon off Plymouth, and its steady hull may matter more to navies than hydrogen

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September 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Harpy eagle gripping prey with its large talons in a forest setting.

A harpy eagle can pull monkeys from rainforest trees, but the predator’s giant talons cannot save it from disappearing habitat

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September 9, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Thin layer of frost covering rocks and soil at the Viking 2 landing site in Utopia Planitia on Mars.

NASA’s Viking 2 photographed a pale frost on Mars nearly 50 years ago, and scientists now think it may have created 30 days of hidden brine

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September 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Seminoe Reservoir canyon in Wyoming, site of the pumped storage project

A Wyoming mountain could become a 972-megawatt water battery, but the project may disturb the trout waters below Seminoe Reservoir

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September 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Four kittens found confined inside a taped grocery basket outside a BC SPCA shelter.

Four kittens survived inside a taped grocery basket outside a British Columbia shelter, but their rescue shows why drop-offs can turn dangerous

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September 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Woman sitting apart from friends during a social gathering.

Psychology says the friend who never asks for help may be hiding a survival strategy learned long before adulthood

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September 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
NASA's High Performance Spaceflight Computing processor held in a gloved hand.

NASA’s new space processor fits in a gloved hand, but its 500-times speed could change how spacecraft survive far from Earth

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September 6, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A lab technician holds a blood sample tube used to measure cholesterol levels.

Millions rely on LDL cholesterol tests to judge heart risk, but a new study suggests apoB may uncover dangerous particles those familiar numbers can miss and could help prevent more heart attacks and strokes

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September 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Seven heavy-haul freight train units lined up during a virtual coupling test in China.

China ran seven 5,000-ton coal trains across Inner Mongolia without physically coupling the train units, using a radio link to keep the 35,000-ton formation moving in sync, and officials say the system could boost rail capacity by more than 50% without laying new track

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September 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Solar panels and wind turbines at the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in eastern Oregon.

Oregon built a wind, solar and battery site for 100,000 homes, but a 10-ounce endangered squirrel still decides when crews can dig

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September 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Massive iceberg during a rollover near Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland.

A massive iceberg flipped off Greenland while cameras watched, and the hidden force below the water turned melting ice into waves

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September 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Desert tortoise resting in the shade beneath solar panels at the Gemini Solar Project in Nevada.

A solar farm was built to harvest the desert sun, but tortoises began using parts of the enormous energy site as shelter and forced researchers to look at what happens when wildlife moves into renewable infrastructure

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September 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Aerial image of Tracy Gartenmann's Austin home used by Travelers Insurance to flag tree branches near the roof.

An aerial photo warned an Austin homeowner her insurance could vanish, and the tree branches it spotted cost her $3,000

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September 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Todd Stevens and Xavier Duffy examining artifacts recovered from the 1680 Phoenix shipwreck near the Isles of Scilly.

A handwritten note reading “Cap Wildy lost” led divers to a 1680 shipwreck, and the recovered objects are finally becoming public history

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September 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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