Marcos Pivetta

MENTAL HEALTH

Depression due to inflammation

Dysregulated immune processes may be related to depression

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Luciana Vanni Gatti

Luciana Vanni Gatti: On carbon’s trail

Chemistry explains study on the Amazon carbon balance

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ZOOLOGY

In the marshes of the Alto Tietê

New bird species is the first to occur exclusively in areas of São Paulo

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ZOOLOGY

Birds of the Atlantic Forest

Atlantic Forest biome is home to 891 species of birds

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GENETICS

One mutation, several defects

Brazilians discover gene responsible for a rare syndrome

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Paleontology

Passage to the Caribbean

Amazon River flowed to Venezuela and Colombia millions of years ago

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Science communication

From monkey to man

A permanent exhibit on human evolution on display in São Paulo

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Physics

Twice as much information

Technique doubles the amount of data recovered from quantum systems

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COVER

The Emperor’s Favorite – Her Final Act

3-D images reveal secrets of a 2,800 year-old mummy at the National Museum

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Astrophysics

More nitrogen in a cluster

Stars of different ages form the oldest collections of matter in galaxies

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CELL BIOLOGY

Metastatic RNA

Study shows the role of a special type of ribonucleic acid in spreading cancer

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Geology

The last great rise of the Atlantic

Ocean rose 60 meters in the Brazilian North and Northeast 25 million years ago

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Memory

Yellowed pages from academia

Portal offers earliest scientific journals published by its schools

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COVER

Meteorite in Piauí

The Santa Marta crater was created by a fallen celestial rock

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COVER

The Araguainha greenhouse

Meteorite may have released enough methane to trigger extinction

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CELL BIOLOGY

Metastatic RNA

Study shows the role of a special type of ribonucleic acid in spreading cancer

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CONDENSED MATTER 

The bizarre side of water

Theoretical model reproduces the anomalies of H2O molecules

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COVER

New birds of Amazonia

Fifteen species are described in Brazilian discovery

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COVER

Climate extremes

Brazil is likely to be at least 3ºC warmer by the end of the century

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COVER

More bits in the service of DNA

More bits in the service of DNA

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Physics

Quantum gambling

The 2012 Nobel Prize Winners speak of the challenges of Quantum mechanics

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BIOCHEMISTRY

The triple helix effect

Triple-stranded DNA may regulate the expression of certain genes

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Cover

New birds of Amazonia

Brazilian's ornithological discovery describes fifteen new species

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Astrophysics

Sentinel in the cosmic darkness

Super radio telescope is looking for the earliest stars in the Universe

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CLIMATE

A heat island in the Amazon

A heat island in the Amazon

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A GATHERING OF NOTABLES

Five Nobel Laureates at a Single Symposium

Event honors American physicist and brings together a quintet of Laureates

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Brian Schmidt

Brian Schmidt: The dark energy enigma

New methods are needed to measure the composition of the Universe

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Paleontology

The tapeworm and the shark

Fossilized feces of fish 270 million years old contain tapeworm eggs

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Beatriz Barbuy

Beatriz Barbuy: In the wake of the first stars

Astrophysics talks about the formation of the first stars of the Milky Way

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More bits in the service of DNA

Brazilian bioinformaticians create tools for studying genomes

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