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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Causes of extreme drought in the Pantanal

Across 2019 and 2020, the Pantanal faced the worst drought recorded in the last 50 years

Unfolding the past

Using an X-ray microtomography scanner, an international team of researchers was able to read the contents of a letter from the Renaissance Period without actually opening it

More funding for science in the UK

The British government has announced plans to create a new funding agency in the country, known as the Advanced Research and Invention Agency

Gimli and Nigel, two dwarf giraffes

Gimli and Nigel are the first recorded examples of dwarfism in wild giraffes

New deans of UFSCar and UNESP

Two São Paulo universities have new deans

First images from Amazonia-1

The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research has released the first images taken by Brazilian satellite Amazonia-1

A planet with a renewed atmosphere

Data obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that an exoplanet (GJ 1132 b) was able to develop a new atmosphere after its original was lost

France underestimated how many were affected by nuclear testing

The inhabitants of the archipelagos of French Polynesia were exposed to 2–20 times more radiation than previously estimated

Scientific papers published by each Brazilian state

In 2019, 64,368 scientific papers were published1 and indexed by the World of Science base with at least one author based in Brazil

Racial violence and scientific meetings

The American Physical Society has adopted new venue selection criteria for its 12 annual scientific events

Scientific integrity training

The Albert Einstein Israeli Institute for Teaching and Research has strengthened training in good research practices for its graduate students

Bottled color

Under a blacklight, the lab-made solution shines

Research during quarantine

Poor performance

Brazil's response to the pandemic was considered the worst in the world by a survey released in January by the Lowy Institute, Australia

Antibodies reduce deaths

A clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, identified a second drug capable of reducing mortality among patients with severe COVID-19

Some more likely than others to leave the house

Middle and high earner are more willing to leave home to work during the pandemic than low earners, even at the risk of contracting the novel coronavirus

Declining infections and hospitalizations

Israel is already benefitting from the effects of vaccination against COVID-19

Concerning virus variations

In early 2021, information emerged on the rapid spread of new variants of SARS-CoV-2

High season on Mars

The exploration of Mars was given fresh impetus last month with the arrival of three spacecraft, each controlled by a different nation