Rodrigo Pérez Ortega

Science, health and environmental journalist

I’m an award-winning freelance science journalist.

My work has been published both in English and Spanish, in Science, Nature, The New York Times, Quanta, Science News, Knowable, The Open Notebook, Animal Político and Medscape en Español, among others.

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Selected Work

Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation

Quanta — September 28, 2020

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.

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Science Magazine

Inside Science

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NASW

The New York Times

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Science News

The Monterey Herald

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Rodrigo Pérez Ortega

I’m an award-winning freelance science journalist.

My work has been published both in English and Spanish, in Science, Nature, The New York Times, Quanta, Science News, Knowable, The Open Notebook, Animal Político and Medscape en Español, among others.

Selected Work

Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation