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Rodrigo Perez Ortega

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega

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Computer scientist and complexity researcher Carlos Gershenson of the National Autonomous University of Mexico stands by a busy urban roadway.
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Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation

By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega
September 28, 2020
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To tame urban traffic, the computer scientist Carlos Gershenson finds that letting transportation systems adapt and self-organize often works better than trying to predict and control them.

Photograph of a bat in flight.
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Can Vaccines for Wildlife Prevent Human Pandemics?

By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega
August 24, 2020
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Studies suggest that self-disseminating vaccines could prevent the “spillover” of animal viruses into humans as pandemic diseases.

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Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis.

By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega
July 30, 2020
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Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model of photosynthesis.

About the author

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega covers life sciences for Quanta magazine. He studied biomedical sciences with a focus on neuroscience at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He started his journalism career as a correspondent and editor for Medscape en Español. He later completed his master’s degree in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work has also appeared in Science, The New York Times, Nature, Science News and Knowable, among others.
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