Marcos Pivetta and Neldson Marcolin

Thomas Maack

Thomas Maack: Memories of a year that never ended

Physiologist on dictatorship, his own career and medical education

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New materials

Malleable and bounces back

Foam made from graphene oxide and boron nitride is lightweight

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Artur Ávila

Artur Ávila: The man who calculates

Brazilian receives the Fields Medal, the most important mathematics award

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Protons and ions in the right amount

Hadron therapy combats tumors more effectively than conventional therapy

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NOBEL

Stem cells: risks and benefits

Martin Evans discusses the challenges of stem cells

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Astrophysics

Nebula in 3D

3D model highlights irregularities around the star Eta Carinae

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The last Minas coastline

Fossils found in MG indicate where there was sea 550 million years ago

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The art of opposition

There was a strong presence of a leftist culture during the dictatorship

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The impact on the academic world

Three hundred professors were driven away from universities by the dictatorship

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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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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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Meteorite in Piauí

The Santa Marta crater was created by a fallen celestial rock

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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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New birds of Amazonia

Fifteen species are described in Brazilian discovery

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Climate extremes

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

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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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