South America Science & Technology News

The computer company Dell ahs announced it made $6.5m in revenues through links on the micro-messaging site...After first disastrous approach which meant basically ignoring complaints, a strategy on which media expert Jeff Jarvis first blogged and wrote about in his...

Hurricane Ida slammed into Nicaragua's Caribbean coast on Thursday after dumping heavy rain on little-developed offshore islands where hundreds of people were evacuated from flimsy homes. At 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) Ida was located about 75 miles north of...

A stunning new image of one of the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors, Barnard's Galaxy, reveals rich star formation and curiously-shaped nebulas. At the relatively close distance of about 1.6 million light-years, Barnard's Galaxy is a member of the Local...

On the 150th anniversary of its publication an appeal has been launched for a missing notebook in which the scientist jotted important observations. Photograph: Graeme Robertson Today, on the 150th anniversary of a book that changed the world – the...

Tropical Storm Ida strengthened off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua on Wednesday, threatening the Central American nation with torrential rains that could trigger devastating mudslides. Ida, the ninth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to make landfall...

Supporting the Department of Telecommunication's directive to bar services to nearly 2.5 million such mobile handsets, ICA President Pankaj Mohindroo, in a release here, said that a thriving unbranded market, accounting for 30 per cent sale in each state, has...

A US court has jailed the founder of an online gambling firm for more than four years and ordered him to forfeit more than $43m (£26m) in illicit earnings. Gary Kaplan, 50, had admitted various charges of fraud and racketeering...

Modern Peru could learn from the civilization's collapse, they say. The Nazca people of Peru -- famous for their huge line drawings on an arid plateau that are fully visible only from the air -- set the stage for their...