There is hard evidence that policies to control illicit drugs over the past 50 years have caused great damage, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. Strategies need to be reshaped in line with the current global sustainable development agenda
The psychiatrist and bioengineer pioneered the use of optogenetics, where light is used to control genetically modified neurons. He has just published a book about the history of emotion
Inspired by Oscar Wilde and Agatha Christie, the author decided after a break-up to test the theory that being constantly on the move would cushion the blow. He found it was halfway true
A team of researchers has designed a video game to help with active aging: the prevention of depression, cognitive stimulation and the promotion of healthy lifestyle habits
The 10.6-kilometer line recently inaugurated in Mexico City can carry 90,000 passengers a day in one of the poorest areas of the capital
Threats against the press in Mexico are on the rise in an increasingly hostile and violent environment. In 2020, there were 692 attacks on reporters – 13.6% more than a year earlier – and six were killed
Saturday’s earthquake is just the latest setback to hit the Caribbean nation, following years of natural disasters, political instability, corruption and gang violence
The species is native to Namibia and Angola and can live for thousands of years in extreme environmental conditions due to its duplicated genome
Academic Concepción Company talks to EL PAÍS about the linguistic richness in Mexico and this changed following the fall of the Aztec Empire and independence
The digital economy has created a new market that can turn a love of online gaming into a profitable occupation through titles such as Axie Infinity and The Sandbox
After the 2010 earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation, tens of thousands of people traveled to Brazil and Chile. Now they are looking to enter the US, but face many challenges on the journey
The authorities do not know how many people have died trying to cross the pass separating Colombia from Panama to head north to the United States. After years of tragedy, they are considering how to make this migration route safer
August 13 marks half a millennium since the fall of the Aztec Empire, and dozens of new books are casting doubt on the version of history written by the victors
A new study has revealed how discharges of the illicit substance are affecting brown trout in the rivers of the Czech Republic
The Mexican government has filed a lawsuit against manufacturers including Smith & Wesson and Colt, arguing they design guns with drug cartels in mind
Since 1945, Washington has not managed a clear victory with the exception of the Gulf War in 1991. The withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq reflect its trouble dealing with guerrilla warfare
BoostDM uses self-learning algorithms and is capable of searching through the mutational profiles of 28,000 genomes in 66 types of tumors
Biologist Manuel Talón has traced the origin of citrus fruits to the foothills of the Himalayas eight million years ago and mapped their evolution into modern edible varieties
A report by the Organization of Ibero-American States shows that 95% of all work published in journals last year was in that language, with only 1% in Spanish or Portuguese
The coronavirus pandemic has given El Salvador’s president the opportunity to sell his image in the region and present himself as having the solutions to its deep-seated problems
DeepMind, a company bought by Google, predicts with unprecedented precision the 3-D structure of nearly all the proteins made by the human body
Simpson’s paradox explains the risks of comparing data without taking all variables into account, which can spawn the kind of misleading headlines seen recently in the news
The 24-year-old champion is looking to win gold at the Tokyo Games and further cement her position as the greatest artistic gymnast of all time
For almost three years, Brazil’s president has chipped away at the social contract that has held the country together for 36 years as a democratic state. Following the cue of other far-right movements, this is how he wrote his very own authoritarian rules of the game
The winner of a satirical award for pseudo-science managed to get two papers published in medical journals claiming that masks are dangerous for children and that vaccines kill nearly as many people as they save
Young people who were detained at the recent demonstrations have been denouncing the abuse that they were subjected to, both on the streets and in precincts. They also fear stiff prison sentences
Carlos Luis Revete controls a large Caracas neighborhood. The government blames the opposition for his rise to power, but organized crime has now gripped the capital for years
