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Astrophysics

We were nine

Solar system returns to having eight planets

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Sea

Selective fishhook

A study shows that national fishing can only grow on the qualitative level

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Interview

We and the monkeys

The Director of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology researches what makes us different from the chimpanzee

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Biodiversity

The rule of the closed field

Law obstructs the collection of biological samples and paralyzes research

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Physics

The phantoms of photons

Brazilian researchers measure the entanglement of light particles

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Biodiversity

Bones of Contention

International meeting debates adoption of global laws on biological heritage

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A larger brother for Pluto?

Distant body is a strong candidate for the tenth planet of the solar system

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Immunology

Double attack

Chemotherapy and stem cells helps to control juvenile diabetes

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Astrophysics

Complex genesis

Two distinct but not excludent processes may originate elliptical galaxies

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Applied physics

Van Dyck – false or authentic?

Physicists try to discover whether painting is by Van Dyck

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Ethology

Sofia’s world

Mongrel uses keys to communicate with humans

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Archeology

Luzia’s cousins

Skulls reinforce theory that different populations colonized the Americas

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Astrophysics

The star of the moment

White dwarf behaves like the most precise optical clock known

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Astrophysics

The great magnet of the Milky Way

Structure pulls our galaxy in its direction

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Interview

Elliot Kitajima: Images for Brazilian science

MIGUEL BOYAYANAn esthete against plant pathogens. This is how, perhaps in a reductionist way, one could describe the work of São Paulo researcher Elliot Kitajima, who for over four decades has dedicated himself to recording images in electron microscopy of agents that attack plants, in particular viruses. Born 69 years ago, from Japanese parents,  in... View Article

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Physics

In the rising of bubbles

Champagne bubbles in four distinct manners

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Interview

Miguel Nicolelis: The man of multiple connections

A worldwide point of reference in neuroscience, restless Miguel Nicolelis, a citizen of São Paulo who has been living for over 15 years in the United States, is getting ready to enjoy his first sabbatical year. It will be quite a year. And the program for the next few months is now ready. He is... View Article

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At the limits of the Universe

Brazilians see the oldest and most distant explosion of a star

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Geology

Invading nomad

The Taquari River changes course and inundates an area of Pantanal

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Zoology

The rainbow of the marmoset and tamarins

Behavior of monkeys indicates the existence of four-color vision standards

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Botany

From the Glory Bush tree to the Queen Palm

The size of the genome of 100 Brazilian trees varies up to twenty

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Immunology

New vaccine against rabies

The Butantan Institute creates a safer alternative for use in human beings

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Spoan: a new illness

Consanguineous marriages bring about an unknown form of deficiency

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I was born ten thousand years ago

Skull reveals São Paulo's first prehistoric inhabitants

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Medicine

Dr Bacchus prescribes

Studies suggest that wine compounds increase longevity

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Forestry engineering

Finite stock in the Amazon

Two species of tree take more than a century to grow

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Interview

Mayana Zatz: One eye on reason, the other on the heart

One eye on reason, the other on the heart

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Stem Cells

The Bill on Biosafety is going to boost Brazilian research

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Genetics

Molecular Signature

Method uses a small fragment of DNA to identify animal species

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Interview

Jefferson Cardia Simões: The ice is ours as well

Researcher who has been at the South Pole says that Antarctica is more important for Brazil than for the USA

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