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Physics

Twisted graphene

Brazilian device records surprising effect of misaligned graphene sheets

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COVID-19

New vaccines on the way

Butantan Institute and federal government plan to start human trials of two vaccine candidates in the coming months

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Physics

Nuclear fusion prefers a 2D world

The chance of hydrogen atoms fusing and generating energy is one billion times greater in two-dimensional systems

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ARCHAEOLOGY

A natural origin for Amazonian dark earths?

Study disputes theory that pre-Columbian peoples produced fertile soil in the Amazon

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Paleontology

Pterosaur precursors

A new study suggests that a group of small extinct ground-dwelling vertebrates, called lagerpetids, were the closest relatives of these mysterious winged reptiles

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Interview

Recognized effort

The director of the International Center for Theoretical Physics at UNESP receives award for his leadership role in Latin American physics research

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Astrophysics

Holes of every size

Gravitational waves reveal black holes of new sizes

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COVER

The Pantanal pleads for rain

Record fires destroy a quarter of the world’s largest floodplain and worsen the impacts of a prolonged drought

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Obituary

João Steiner’s legacy

The USP astrophysicist studied black holes and created partnerships giving Brazil access to large international telescopes

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Biota – 20 Years

More than biodiversity

Studies on interactions between vegetation and the climate, such as those that occur in the Atlantic Forest, open new paths for the FAPESP program

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Astrophysics

Where the “day” lasts half a minute

Brazilians discover the fastest white dwarf star, which completes one rotation on its axis in less than 30 seconds

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Biology

A dose of Darwin in taxonomy

New method of classifying living organisms favors evolutionary history and abandons the divisions of the Linnaean system

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Archaeology

30,000 years ago in the Americas

Mexican site suggests settlement of the Americas began 30,000 years ago

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Environment

The return of deforestation

Official INPE figure says 10,129 km2 of the Amazon were deforested in 2019, the most since 2008

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INTERVIEW

Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão: The physicist who would not bend

Almost a year after being dismissed, the former director of INPE continues to warn that deforestation is out of control in the Amazon

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Covid-19

Looking for shortcuts

International teams use eight different techniques to create 150 COVID-19 vaccine candidates in six months

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Interview

Sergio Machado Rezende: Together against COVID-19

The physicist is one of the coordinators of the Scientific Committee for the Fight against Coronavirus in the Northeast, which advises the region's governors

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Environment

Biomes under attack

97% of the 12,000 square kilometers of land deforested in Brazil last year was in the Amazon and the Cerrado

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Environment

Fire and biodiversity

Experiment suggests that small, controlled fires increase the number of plant species in the Cerrado without decreasing the number of animals

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Interview

Michael Boris Green: The tuner of strings

British physicist shares his role in the 1980s reformulation of a theory that aims to describe all that exists in the universe

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Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years

Stories on the wing

Both living and extinct birds have been the subjects of various reports over 20 years of Pesquisa FAPESP

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physics

Big data and new materials

Scientists turn to digital mining techniques and huge databases of compounds in efforts to accelerate the discovery of new structures

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Interview

Augusto Damineli: Stellar interpreter

An astrophysicist recounts his discovery that the most-studied star beyond our Sun undergoes periodic dips in luminance, and is actually a system composed of two stars

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Climate change

Australia on fire

Record-breaking heat and drought levels cause fires that cover an area 2.5 times the size of the 2019 Amazon fires

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Paleoanthropology

Diaspora 2.5 million years ago

Chipped stone artifacts found in Jordan may be evidence of archaic humans leaving Africa 400,000 years earlier than previously thought

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Environment

How to monitor forest fires

Data from NASA and INPE satellites confirm an increased number of fires in the Amazon

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Climate Change

The Amazon is now a source of CO2

Between 2010 and 2017, the rainforest emitted more carbon than it absorbed

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Ornithology

A comeback in the Atlantic Forest

Alagoas curassows are reintroduced into their habitat 40 years after going extinct in the wild

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Ecology 

A bat in the nest

Cameras catch winged mammals attacking eggs and chicks in bird nests in the Atlantic Forest of São Paulo State

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Physics

Cooling with a twist

Cooling systems based on twisting and untwisting fibers can reduce water temperature by 7 °C

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