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SURVEY MANAGEMENT

The imaginary lands of Pará
The 22.7 million hectares of private land and 18.5 million hectares of public land that only exist on paper
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Engineering

Guidelines for engineering courses
The Brazilian Ministry of Education has approved a set of guidelines that aims to update the curriculum of engineering degrees in the country
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Neuroscience

Partially revived brains
Researchers partially revived the brains of pigs four hours after the animals were slaughtered for human consumption
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Archaeology

New species of primitive humans
Homo luzonensis may have lived in the region more than 50,000 years ago
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Environment

The gradual degradation of ancient lakes
Intensive fishing, sewage, fertilizer runoff, algae, invasions of exotic species, and tourism are altering the world's largest freshwater lakes
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Knowledge

What Americans know about science
A study has provided an overview of how much Americans understand about scientific concepts and practices
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Data

São Paulo universities: 30 years of autonomy
Productivity indicators have risen significantly since the three universities in the state of São Paulo (USP, UNICAMP, and UNESP) were granted full financial autonomy in 1989
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Video

Researchers are under threat. How can they protect themselves? – Resistance to science (EP1)
Video series discusses the confidence crisis and the atacks on scientific knowledge
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Videos

Programs track Amazon deforestation
PRODES and DETER systems, developed by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), have different and complementary roles. Understand how
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Environment

Fuel-efficient only on long trips
Vertical take-off and landing aircraft could help reduce congestion and improve air quality in major cities
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Medicine

Wireless sensors for babies in the ICU
Researchers has developed a wireless, battery-free sensor for monitoring babies in Intensive Care Units
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Zoology

Gorillas mourn the dead
Just like humans and other primates, gorillas exhibit mourning behavior
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paleontology

The day the dinosaurs died
A discovery is helping researchers understand the events that followed the huge meteorite impact that hit Earth 65 million years ago
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Reconstruction

Notre-Dame Cathedral in 3D
A digital image created by art historian Andrew Tallon almost a decade ago could help in the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral
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Good practices

Article written by priest retracted for plagiarism
"The Road to Emmaus and the Road to Gaza," published by Canadian priest Thomas Rosica in 1994, has been retracted by the journal Worship
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Good practices

Punishment for deceptive business practices
Omics International has been found guilty of adopting deceptive commercial policies that violate US law in a suit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission
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Photolab

Niobium in bloom
"Flowers" bloom inside a device that works like a pressure cooker at a University of São Paulo Chemistry Institute laboratory
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Video

How to protect sharks
Research group tracks oceanic sharks and maps them onto fishing zones in order to propose conservation areas | 3'40"
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Printed

Read the International Issue
Read or download Pesquisa Fapesp's International Issue published in September 2019
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video

Plastic pollution, in numbers and pictures
Since the mid-20th century, an estimated 8,9 billion tons of plastics have been produced worldwide
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OBITUARY

News with reflection
Maria da Graça Mascarenhas helped to create Pesquisa FAPESP
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Information technology

Deciphering blockchain
System created to support cryptocurrency is now being used in a number of other applications
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physics

A picture of sound
Image 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
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Physics

Physicist receives Brazil’s highest science and technology award
Vanderlei Bagnato, from the São Carlos Physics Institute (IFSC) at the University of São Paulo, is the 2019 winner of the Almirante Álvaro Alberto Award
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Engineering

Recognition for creators of GPS
Four engineers who created the first Global Positioning System (GPS) have received The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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mathematics

The first woman to win the Abel Prize
American mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize, one of the most important awards in mathematics
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Astronomy

Organization established to build the world’s largest radio telescope
After 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
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Nanotechnology

Fabric that controls heat and repels insects
Brazilian researchers and businesses are using textile fibers that contain nanometric particles to develop fabrics with special properties
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