Redação
Photolab
Frozen? Not always
Project monitors how snowmelt affects seawater, air, and sediment in Antarctica
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Data
Industrial expenditure on R&D in Brazil
Graphs show industry R&D spending in Brazil in 2022
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GOOD PRACTICES
Linguistics journal editors resign and found new journal
Linguistics journal editors resign and found new journal
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Good practices
PLOS ONE changes publication process to reduce number of corrections
PLOS ONE changes publication process to reduce number of corrections
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Demographics
A world with fewer children
Fertility rates have fallen drastically in the last 70 years
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Health
One in five pregnant women has an STI
One in five pregnant Brazilian women has at least one sexually transmitted infection
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Biochemistry
Floating flowers to clean rivers
Flowers on mats helped clean river water in the USA
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New Materials
Banana peel films
Powdered banana peel transformed into bioplastic films with potential applications in packaging
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Biodiversity
Colors found among white sandy islands of the Amazon
White sandy areas of the Amazon are home to unique plant communities
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Biodiversity
Rare maned wolves in Rio Grande do Sul
The maned wolf, typical of the Cerrado biome, was spotted on the border between the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina
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Medicine
Signs of Parkinson’s disease in the skin
In the future, a skin exam could help doctors diagnose Parkinson's disease
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recognition
Niède Guidon wins Admiral Álvaro Alberto Award
Niède Guidon wins Admiral Álvaro Alberto Award
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History
Mexicans recover Aztec documents
Mexicans recover three Aztec documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Biodiversity
More dams, less fish diversity
Hydroelectric dams reduce the diversity of freshwater fish worldwide
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Astrophysics
Strong magnetic field at the center of the Milky Way
Magnetic fields around the edge of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
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New Materials
Flexible solar cells in thin plastic films
Australian scientists make flexible solar cells from thin plastic film
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Agriculture
Drought-resistant crop options
Diversification of agricultural crops has mitigated effects of climate fluctuations in northwest India
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Photolab
Fish watching
Biologist highlights the importance of ecotourism to the preservation of a river ecosystem
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Data
Impacts of Innovations with Environmental Benefits (IWEBs)
Research shows the importance of innovations with environmental benefits
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Good practices
Cash reward for finding errors in influential articles
Over the next four years, a program based at the University of Bern, Switzerland, will pay experts to look for errors in over one hundred influential scientific articles. The more problems they find, the more money they will receive. Each will be paid a minimum of US$285 if they find nothing, rising to more than... View Article
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Good practices
Scientist who publishes more than one paper per week has had 20 retracted
Saudi pharmacist Nabil Alhakamy has published 219 scientific articles since 2020—an average of more than one per week. The quality of his academic work, however, is now under question: more than 20 of his articles have been retracted in recent years, mostly due to problems with images and figures. The most recent was a paper... View Article
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Paleontology
Plentiful hunting in the rivers
Turtle fossil found in a mine in the Madeira River basin belonged to one of the largest species ever described
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History
Shipwrecks record history of slavery
Archaeologists in the Bahamas identify 14 slave ships that sank between 1767 and 1860
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COVID-19
Even after being destroyed, the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc
Even when broken apart by the human immune system, the SARS-CoV-2 virus still causes excessive inflammation
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Computing
Carbonized ancient philosophy
Brazilian team is among the winners of the international Vesuvius Challenge to identify writing on carbonized scrolls
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Acknowledgment
New USP representatives at FAPESP
Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda, Marcílio Alves, and Marco Antonio Zago appointed to the FAPESP Board of Trustees
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Innovation
Fireflies of the plant world
Bioluminescent plant that emits green light in the dark goes on sale in the USA
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Projects
More researchers submitting applications
In 2023, FAPESP received 4,483 proposals from researchers who had never before requested funding
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Agriculture
Who’s afraid of European legislation?
Agricultural sectors prepare to adapt to new European regulations requiring proof that products do not originate from land deforested after 2020
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