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Meat or vegan ultraprocessed products, does it matter?

Nutritional values of processed meat or vegan products are similar, but salt contents may be too high to be healthy | 3'44

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Botanics

Queen of the water lilies

Victoria boliviana is the newest species of giant water lily to be recognized by science

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COVID-19

The pandemic and bats

Bats unfairly persecuted after being presented in the news as reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

New member of the Board of Trustees

Infectious disease specialist David Uip is the newest member of FAPESP's Board of Trustees

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ASTRONOMY

Preventing impact with Earth

Simulations used to find the best strategy for diverting an asteroid on a collision course with Earth

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GENDER

Women researchers still receive less credit than men

Women researchers still receive less credit than men in all scientific fields

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BIOMECHANICS

Why woodpeckers do not suffer from headaches

Why woodpeckers do not suffer headaches, despite pecking tree trunks almost 20 times per second

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Ukrainian wins the Fields Medal

Ukraine’s Maryna Viazovska wins the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious honors in mathematics

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Astronomy

A star turned into spaghetti

A star was torn apart after nearing a black hole

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MEDICINE

The resurgence of the Sabiá virus

Two new cases of Brazilian hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Sabiá virus, have been identified

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Public health

Number of unvaccinated children rises

Brazil was one of the countries most affected by falling childhood vaccination in 2021

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DATA

Scientific articles & economic activity

The graph presents data on GDP per capita and scientific articles published per million inhabitants for selected countries

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GOOD PRACTICES

How research on scientific integrity has evolved

Article finds a 12% annual increase in the number of papers on the topic published over the last three decades, as well as a rise in international collaborations

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GOOD PRACTICES

Linguist fired by Princeton claims he is a victim of political persecution

Joshua Katz, punished for having a relationship with a student, claims he was “canceled” for speaking out against an antiracist agenda

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Video

Vapes, a path to traditional cigarettes

Even banned in Brazil, electronic cigarettes are consumed by young people and are a health hazard | 3'17

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Video

Fishes and corals also suffer with climate change

Altered ocean currents carry less of the microorganisms which feed deep and cold water corals. Closer to the surface, rising temperatures pose energetic challenges for fishes | 3'02

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biodiversity

From captivity to the skies

Eight Spix’s macaws bred in captivity were released into the wild in Bahia

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Astronomy

Two planets, similar but different

Known as the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune are similar in composition, mass, and size, but they are different shades of blue

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Recognition

Carlos Joly wins 2022 Conrado Wessel award

UNICAMP’s Carlos Joly wins the 2022 FCW Science Award

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PALEONTOLOGY

Fred the wandering mastodon

Researchers identify the migratory routes of a mastodon that died approximately 13,200 years ago

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ASTROPHYSICS

Astronomers identify 30 exocomets in Beta Pictoris

Astronomers identify at least 30 exocomets orbiting the extrasolar system Beta Pictoris

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Financing

UK set to lose funding

United Kingdom could be excluded from European science program

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OCEANOGRAPHY

A refuge for giant algae

Southern coast of Chile appears to be a safe haven for giant kelp forests

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Environment

Forests and water supply in the USA

USA’s national forest system produces almost half of all water used in the country

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HISTORY

Possible origin of the Black Death

Black Death may have originated in the region of Eurasia that is now Kyrgyzstan, west of China

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GEOLOGY

The Tonga megatsunami

Tonga tsunami in January may have been amplified by acoustic-gravity waves

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Health

Fewer cases of malaria during pregnancy

Cases of gestational malaria have decreased in Brazil over the last decade

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physical

Microscopic drones controlled by light

Physicists propel and control a microscopic object with precision using only light

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Financing

Poor management of research funding in Norway

Norway's minister of research and higher education dismisses all members of the board

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archeology

Genome of Vesuvius victim sequenced for the first time

Genome of Vesuvius victim sequenced for the first time by group of researchers

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