In Chapter 15, “Above the Falls,” author Jonathan Meiburg recounts an evening on a research expedition near the Rewa River in Guyana.

An unsung group of South American falcons yields clues to the prehistory of a continent, and hints at secrets of the avian brain.

While questions still outnumber answers, new findings from archaeology, genetics, and other disciplines are revealing surprising insights into the early cultures of the most recently populated continent.

Genetics and archaeology yield clues as to when humans first arrived on the continent and how these early settlers lived.

Genetic evidence points to individuals from South America having possibly floated on a raft to Polynesian islands about 500 years before Europeans navigated there.

The Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden is still assessing the damage from a June 15 fire.

The company behind a now-discredited study on hydroxychloroquine also posted a report that has been cited by Latin American governments recommending ivermectin as a possible coronavirus treatment. Clinicians there say the effects have been extremely damaging.

An extinct rodent relative of the capybara appears to have had a smaller brain-to-body ratio than similar species.

As the afternoon breezes blow harder in the Atacama Desert—a place so desolate it’s used as a model of Mars—more microbes move into its driest regions.

Nine months after a fire destroyed priceless collections, scientists are working restore the archives and keep their research afloat.

Genetic information from dozens of individuals living 700 to 10,000 years ago reveals connections between Clovis and Native Americans and South Americans.

Unlike other populations living at high altitude, Andeans didn’t rely on hypoxia-related genes.

Divergent human lineages of North America intermingled before setting off to establish populations of Central and South America.  

S. Allen Counter pursued scientific questions within various cultures throughout the world.

Diego Gomez was facing jail time in Colombia for posting someone else’s copyrighted thesis online.

The 44 percent drop in funding is disproportionately large compared to overall reductions in government spending.

Interim President Michel Temer fuses the country’s science and telecommunications ministries amid funding cuts.

Although research supplies are exempted from Argentina’s import restrictions, regulations for bringing materials into the country are hampering science nonetheless.

Avian species significantly reduce coffee berry borer beetle infestations in Costa Rica.