Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) and the firm Luz WaveLabs are developing an innovative Terahertz generator that improves signal quality by one million times as compared to the best device of this kind currently on the market; it will allow this technology to be applied in the areas of biomedicine, transportation safety, industry and radio astronomy, among others.

The project designed to manage and analyze the almost 250 terabytes of data that the Atacama Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will generate each year has joined the International Virtual Observatory Alliance, becoming a key initiative in Chile's contribution to astroinformatics around the world.

Social networks have become the Internet’s most used applications. Among these, Facebook and Twitter dominate the market, with billions of users. Given this scenario, “Google, the internet giant, realized that in order to maintain its dominant position, it would have to get involved in the social network market,” declares one of the authors of the study, Rubén Cuevas, of UC3M’s Telematic Engineering Department. His study seeks to settle the debate regarding the success of Google+. On one hand, Google has, on several occasions, declared its social network a huge success; on the other hand, some experts and media sources, such as the Wall Street Journal, have nicknamed the network a “ghost town”.

Most of Ayapel inhabitants derive their livelihood from hunting, fishing and agriculture. However, these resources are being drastically depleted as a result of overexploitation and deforestation. Also overfishing has led to a decline in populations of several species including shad, catfish and bocachico. Illegal gold mining and drop in rice prices due to free trade agreements are also problems affecting this region.