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Good practices
University ranking fraud goes to court
Moshe Porat has been indicted by a federal court for submitting fraudulent information to the U.S. News & World Report
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Photolab
Vital swamp
Although the Amazon is known as a rainforest, it is also home to the largest mangrove in the world
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COVID-19
New clues about blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine
A step has been taken towards explaining why the vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca can very rarely lead to the formation of blood clots
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COVID-19
The months-long consequences of COVID-19
The long-term effects of COVID-19 are becoming clearer
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COVID-19
The importance of the cellular response against the coronavirus
Fighting a SARS-CoV-2 infection is not solely the responsibility of antibodies, the proteins that adhere to the virus’s surface to prevent it from entering cells or mark it for destruction
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COVID-19
Two vaccines prevent infection by Sars-CoV-2
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are 80% effective at preventing SARS-Cov-2 infections after the first dose and 90% after the second
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COVID-19
Superior immunity
Studies of blood and tissue samples taken before the COVID-19 pandemic may help explain why the disease is more common and more severe in adults than in children
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Ingenuity
Successful flight on mars
NASA's robotic helicopter Ingenuity became the first aircraft designed on Earth to make a controlled and self-propelled flight on another planet
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paleontology
The pterosaur of the trees
A 160-million-year-old fossil discovered in Liaoning, northeast China, belongs to a new species of pterosaur, which has been generating curiosity
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Energy
Energy generated by vibration
Spanish startup Vortex Bladeless plans to start testing its innovative technique of generating wind energy from the vibrations of a vertical carbon fiber rod later this year
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Public health
Tuberculosis in prisons
Tuberculosis cases in the Latin American prison population increased by 269% between 2011 and 2017
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Education
São Paulo State Governor appoints new dean of UNICAMP
Food engineer Antonio José de Almeida Meirelles, known as Tom Zé, has been appointed dean of the University of Campinas
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Physics
A quantum computer for private use
The Cleveland Clinic in the USA will be IBM's first private customer to own a quantum computer
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Funding
More money for science in the USA
US President Joe Biden presented the country’s 2022 budget in April
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Physics
Shedding light on antimatter
For the first time, researchers have managed to cool antimatter atoms using lasers
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Archaeology
3,000-year-old city in the Valley of the Kings
In early April, archaeologists and the Egyptian government announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old city, the largest ever unearthed in ancient Egypt
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Data
Number of published scientific articles has grown significantly over the past three decades
Number of published scientific articles has grown significantly over the past three decades
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Good practices
Alarming medical research in Iran
A group of researchers from various universities in Iran recently sent a scientific integrity questionnaire to professors at medical schools around the country
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Good practices
Data manufactured in study evaluating psychiatric clinics
A renowned expert in treating anxiety and phobias who edited a mental disorder diagnosis manual used by psychologists in Germany fabricated some of the data in a €2.4-million study
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photolab
Lethal networks
Faced with an invasion of viruses or bacteria, human immune system cells sometimes overreact in a process known as NETosis, which has been shown to be more severe when the invader is SARS-CoV-2
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Video
These birds show how species arise
Ornithologist Luís Fábio Silveira, curator of the bird collections at the Zoology Museum of the University of São Paulo (MZ-USP), explains how studies with capuchino seedeaters help understanding their diversification by means of evolution | 5'46
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Video
Nasa’s Brazilian engineer explains the Mars 2020 mission
Ivair Gontijo is among those responsible for building and monitoring the rover Perseverance, which is searching for traces of life in Mars | 11'57
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video
These nurseries can help to recover coral
Culture of damaged fragments onto 3D-printed cribs is a promising technology for restoring threatened reefs | 4'50
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COVID-19
Death of a man; extinction of an ethnic group
Aruká Juma, the last person to speak the language of the Juma people, died of COVID-19 on February
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COVID-19
A mask that inactivates the virus
Hospital Regional da Asa Norte in Brasília began clinical trials of a mask that contains a biocompatible compound capable of inactivating the novel coronavirus
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COVID-19
High infant mortality in Sergipe
Despite having enough beds available in intensive care units (ICU) for adults, Sergipe has a 41% shortfall in pediatric beds
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COVID-19
Understand the long-term effects
The US NIH announced a plan to invest US$1.15 billion over the next four years into research on the long-term effects of COVID-19
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COVID-19
Outbreak on ship confirms the main route of contagion
The results of computer simulations of how COVID-19 spread on the Australian cruise ship Princess Diamond have finally been published in a scientific journal.
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Archaeology
A powerful fertilizer
Archaeological records of plants and grains suggest that agriculture sustained large human settlements in northern Chile for many centuries was established in 1438
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