Plastic pollution, in numbers and pictures
August 20, 2019 5:56 pm Leave your thoughtsSince the mid-20th century, an estimated 8,9 billion tons of plastics have been produced worldwide
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Reducing roadkill
August 13, 2019 3:08 pm Leave your thoughtsBiologist wins environmental conservation award for her wildlife monitoring and management startup
The importance of (good) public speaking
August 13, 2019 3:08 pm Leave your thoughtsBalanced and thought-provoking presentations can help disseminate research results and open doors to new opportunities
News with reflection
August 13, 2019 3:07 pm Leave your thoughtsMaria da Graça Mascarenhas helped to create Pesquisa FAPESP
A book for cinephiles
August 13, 2019 3:06 pm Leave your thoughts26 researchers analyze in a book a century of national production
Basilio Losada: Literary mediator
August 13, 2019 3:05 pm Leave your thoughtsFirst interpreter for Jorge Amado of Spain, philologist Basilio Losada translated close to 150 books in eight languages
Judiciary undergoing transformation
August 13, 2019 3:05 pm Leave your thoughtsOpposing the trend of the 1990s, study identifies fewer women and working class among Brazilian judges
Natural flavor
August 13, 2019 3:04 pm Leave your thoughtsDuas Rodas, in southern Brazil, is investing to develop food ingredients that are responsive to emerging consumer demands
Deciphering blockchain
August 13, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsSystem created to support cryptocurrency is now being used in a number of other applications
High-tech construction sites
August 13, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsNew technologies, digital tools, and mass production aim to raise productivity
The private conquest of the Cosmos
August 13, 2019 2:58 pm Leave your thoughtsA capsule of the company SpaceX flies to the International Space Station and may give the United States the capacity to put humans in orbit
The origin of perching birds
August 13, 2019 2:58 pm Leave your thoughtsA group representing more than 60% of bird species originated in Australia 47 million years ago, study finds
The Alta Floresta titi
August 13, 2019 2:57 pm Leave your thoughtsA new species of monkey is discovered in northern Mato Grosso State
A diet of chicken and corn
August 13, 2019 2:57 pm Leave your thoughtsStudies find that the majority of dog food in Brazil is based on a less-than-ideal formula of these two ingredients
New copper finds north of Carajás
August 13, 2019 2:56 pm Leave your thoughtsSurvey reveals potentially vast reserves of the metal in the Bacajá region
The young Amazon
August 13, 2019 2:55 pm Leave your thoughtsCentral region of the rainforest may have formed just 45,000 years ago as wetlands receded
Peretz Lavie: Building an innovation ecosystem
August 13, 2019 2:54 pm Leave your thoughtsThe president of Technion talks about the principles and guidelines that led an Israeli university to becoming a global benchmark
Proliferating startups
August 13, 2019 2:54 pm Leave your thoughtsInnovative life science companies attract investment in Lausanne, Switzerland
Articles animated
August 13, 2019 2:54 pm Leave your thoughtsScientific journals publish videos to make research and experimental results more transparent and educational
Giving wings to curiosity
August 13, 2019 2:54 pm Leave your thoughtsSeventeenth edition of Brazilian Science & Engineering Fair brings together top science projects from across the country
How to survive without subscribing to scientific journals
August 13, 2019 2:53 pm Leave your thoughtsDigital tools and social networks help students and researchers find articles online
Jairton Dupont: The radical chemist
August 13, 2019 2:51 pm Leave your thoughtsThe specialist in ionic liquids defends a more open, pluralistic, and democratic university
Daniel Kennefick: The importance of Sobral
August 13, 2019 2:50 pm Leave your thoughtsAn astrophysicist and science historian reports that without the observation of the eclipse in the city of Ceará, the experimental results of 1919 would probably have been inconclusive
In the British expedition’s shadow
August 13, 2019 2:50 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Sobral eclipse was also observed by scientific expeditions from Brazil and the US
When light bent
August 13, 2019 2:50 pm Leave your thoughtsObservation of the 1919 solar eclipse from Brazil and Africa provided the first experimental proof of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
A picture of sound
August 13, 2019 2:49 pm Leave your thoughtsImage shows the interaction between shock waves generated by two fighter jets as they pass the speed of sound at about 1,230 kilometers per hour
Physicist receives Brazil’s highest science and technology award
August 13, 2019 2:49 pm Leave your thoughtsVanderlei Bagnato, from the São Carlos Physics Institute (IFSC) at the University of São Paulo, is the 2019 winner of the Almirante Álvaro Alberto Award
Recognition for creators of GPS
August 13, 2019 2:49 pm Leave your thoughtsFour engineers who created the first Global Positioning System (GPS) have received The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
The first woman to win the Abel Prize
August 13, 2019 2:49 pm Leave your thoughtsAmerican mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize, one of the most important awards in mathematics
Organization established to build the world’s largest radio telescope
August 13, 2019 2:49 pm Leave your thoughtsAfter three and a half years of negotiation, representatives from seven countries came together to sign a treaty establishing the intergovernmental organization that will oversee construction of the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array