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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.
A composite image showing a total solar eclipse transitioning into an annular "ring of fire" eclipse against a dark starry background.

Goodbye to total eclipses: every year, the Moon moves a little further away… and the most visible consequence has a date

April 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Rare gigantic jet lightning shooting upward from a thunderstorm toward space as seen from the International Space Station

NASA is once again highlighting an image taken on July 3, 2025, from the ISS that looks like something out of a movie: a “gigantic jet” that doesn’t fall to Earth, but instead shoots out of a storm and rises to a height of nearly 100 kilometers

April 5, 2026 at 4:52 AM
JOIDES Resolution research vessel at sea during the expedition that recovered the deepest mantle core ever drilled beneath the Atlantic Ocean

Scientists drill into the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and extract the deepest mantle core ever obtained at 4,160 feet

April 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Wetland landscape in the Netherlands or Belgium linked to ancient hunter-gatherer populations studied through DNA research

Ancient DNA reveals that hunter-gatherers in what is now Belgium and the Netherlands survived until 2500 BC, when the rest of Europe was already engaged in agriculture

April 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Dwingeloo radio telescope detecting Voyager 1 signal from deep space nearly 25 billion kilometers from Earth

A group of amateur astronomers has just “heard” a signal from 25 billion kilometers away, confirming that Voyager 1 is still transmitting from the outer reaches of the Solar System

April 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Concept illustration of asteroid mining and lunar resource extraction as part of China’s long-term space development strategy

China has set itself the goal of “dominating” the Solar System by the year 2100, and what is most surprising is that it will begin as early as 2026-2030 with mining operations near Earth

April 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Large fragment of the Aletai iron meteorite seized by Russian customs after smugglers attempted to export it as a garden sculpture.

Russia intercepts a 2.8-ton fragment of the Aletai meteorite, valued at $4.2 million, which was being smuggled out of the country disguised as a simple garden ornament

April 2, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Barista handing a cup of coffee to a customer, illustrating research on coffee’s surprising effect on the gut microbiota

An epidemiologist who has been studying the gut for 30 years confirms that coffee has a surprising effect on the microbiota

April 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
European eel Anguilla anguilla, a migratory fish now listed as critically endangered after decades of population decline.

The eel, which can grow to over a meter in length and travel thousands of kilometers between rivers and the sea, is critically endangered according to the IUCN, and now the industry fears a total ban

April 1, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Invisible countertop cooktops arriving in 2026 could upend induction and glass-ceramic stoves.

Say goodbye to the traditional induction cooktop: the invisible cooktop that threatens to replace the classic glass cooktop and is beginning to cast doubt on the future of the induction cooktop as we’ve known it

March 31, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Microbialite-covered shoreline at Utah’s Great Salt Lake, where scientists found a newly described worm species

In 2022, they descended to the bottom of Utah’s Great Salt Lake and found a “worm” that, according to the textbooks, should not exist there and is now officially a new species to science

March 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Coelacanth fish Latimeria chalumnae, the ancient lobe-finned species rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938.

December 1938, a call from a ship and an “impossible fish” in South Africa: that’s how the day began when Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer turned 66 million years of science on its head

March 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Researcher examining a large pink granite boulder in Antarctica linked to a hidden structure beneath Pine Island Glacier

The pink rocks of Antarctica reveal a gigantic secret structure hidden under the ice for 175 million years

March 31, 2026 at 10:45 AM
China’s record 35.6 tesla superconducting magnet developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for extreme magnetic field research.

China has just activated a 35.6-tesla magnet, 700,000 times more powerful than the Earth’s magnetic field, and the big question is what it intends to do with such power in 2026

March 31, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Patient undergoing dialysis in a medical clinic as scientists advance artificial kidney research using human stem cells

Goodbye to dialysis as we know it: Scientists create artificial kidneys from human stem cells, paving the way for a new era in regenerative medicine

March 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
View of Earth from space illustrating rising global heat and oceans absorbing most of the planet’s excess energy

The data has the UN on high alert: Earth has just broken a nearly imperceptible climate record, and scientists believe this “heat debt” could eventually trigger heat waves, storms, and coastal events over the coming centuries

March 30, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Group of young adults taking a selfie at a party, illustrating the contrast between social connection, friendship, and loneliness

What does it mean to have no friends, according to psychology?

March 29, 2026 at 10:45 AM
View of Earth from space showing North America, Central America, clouds, and city lights against a star-filled background

NASA sets a date for the beginning of the end of the Earth

March 29, 2026 at 7:06 AM
School of blue fish with yellow tails swimming in open ocean, illustrating the marine life now threatened by long-term ocean warming

A study conducted between 1993 and 2021 on 33,000 fish populations raises a very serious warning: for every 0.1°C of ocean warming per decade, marine life declines by 7.2%, and scientists are already talking about a “surprising and deeply worrying” loss

March 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM
View of Earth showing a green wave moving northeast to illustrate global changes in vegetation

Earth’s “green wave” is changing course, and scientists are already observing a global shift toward the northeast that could accelerate over the course of this century

March 25, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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