Por PAOLA FLORES, AP News: IROHITO URUS, Bolivia (AP) — Three students from the Irohito Urus ethnic group in the Bolivian highlands have created a robot with the head of an Andean cat using materials from their environment such as reeds to disinfect surfaces such as cell phones and raise awareness among care to combat…
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Bolivian team gets second place in robotics competition in Egypt – Equipo boliviano consigue el segundo lugar en competencia de robótica en Egipto
Edwin Fernández Rojas, Los Tiempos: Technology The Bolivian representation in the robotics competition Egypt 2022. | Bolivian Foreign Ministry [see photo on the Spanish portion] Two Bolivian groups had an outstanding performance in the robotics contest that took place in Egypt last weekend. The Mad Team team climbed to the second step of the podium…
Equipo boliviano triunfa en concurso internacional de biología sintética – Bolivian team triumphs in international synthetic biology contest
Pagina Siete: The project that the group, made up of more than 60 people, presented was a biosensor that detects arsenic in water (VIDEO). Bolivia won the gold medal in the international iGEM competition on synthetic biology. The project that the group of more than 60 people presented is related to a biosensor that detects…
Inventiva – Inventiveness
Página Siete: Un inventor gana el concurso Emprende Ideas en Pandemia El paceño Sergio Reynaldo Alcázar ganó el primer premio del concurso Emprende Ideas en Pandemia, organizado por la Fundación Samuel Doria Medina. Obtuvo 30.000 bolivianos como capital semilla para desarrollar su proyecto emprendedor. Éste consiste en la venta de un proyector capaz de presentar…
La visión del agricultor – Farmer’s vision
Rolando Morales, Página Siete: Changes in traditional agriculture The main crops of traditional agriculture continue to show low yields, although research centers report having found the appropriate technologies to increase them, even to levels higher than those of neighboring countries. Some recent events shed light on the understanding of this paradox, at the same time…
Growing underground to avoid drought
BBC has produced a short but very interesting video, whose link you could find at the very end of this post: Growing underground to avoid drought The Altiplano in Bolivia is one of the largest and highest plateaus in the world. To protect their crops from drought, flash floods and increasing temperatures, some farmers are…
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