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A corpse that washed up near Benidorm, eastern Spain last week is yet another example of an increasingly common phenomenon that is baffling scientists

What began with treats lugged back and forth in suitcases from trips home has evolved into an industry driven by the taste of the soft drinks, candy, pastries and cheesy bites of childhood. Latino expatriates will do anything to get their fix. We delve into a transnational food industry driven by homesickness

The former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, has given an interview for Telemundo in which he says he had nothing to with the killing of DEA agent Enrique Camarena, for which he is serving a 40-year sentence

Archaeology suggests the intensive use of psychoactive substances mostly happened after the Neolithic Revolution in 10,000 BC, when mankind invented farming and civilization

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

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

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