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Could these be the precursors of pterosaurs?

Study suggests that extinct small terrestrial vertebrates, the lagerpetids, were the closest relatives of those mysterious winged reptiles | 6'43

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COVID-19

Bird sings at lower volume in quiet city

During the pandemic, the white-crowned sparrow's singing returned to the volume it sang at in the 1970s

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COVID-19

Nasal spray prevents infection in ferrets

A nasal spray tested on ferrets prevented absorption of SARS-CoV-2 and for a period of 24 hours, prevented them from becoming infected with the novel coronavirus when exposed to animals known to be affected by the pathogen

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COVID-19

Preexisting antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

Antibodies against other varieties of coronavirus are in some cases capable of recognizing SARS-CoV-2 and providing some degree of protection to those who have not yet contracted the COVID-19 pathogen

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COVID-19

Higher risk of premature birth

Pregnant women infected with the novel coronavirus are at greater risk of giving birth prematurely

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COVID-19

Restaurants spread infections in the United States

A study suggests that the majority of novel coronavirus infections recorded between March and May this year occured in restaurants in metropolitan areas in the USA

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Ecology

Under the female gaze

Males with brightly colored wings attract more females to their territory, as well as more rival males, sparking a fierce competition for mating partners

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Chemistry

Signs of life on Venus fade

Venus was the center of attention in September when Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, UK, and her colleagues published a paper in Nature Astronomy on the high concentrations of phosphine gas (PH3) detected in the planet’s atmosphere

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Archaeology

Neanderthals were weaned at 6 months

New evidence suggests that the weaning age and growth rate of newborn Neanderthals were similar to modern humans

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Zoology

Leprosy in wild chimpanzees

Photos taken in 2017 are the first record of wild chimpanzees with lesions indicative of leprosy on their faces and other parts of their bodies

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Open access

Disappearing journals

Digital open access scientific journals are vanishing from the internet, leaving no indication that their files are being kept in digital libraries or archives

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Environment

The scale of the thaw in Greenland

Greenland's three largest glaciers lost nearly 2.9 trillion tons of ice between 1880 and 2012

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Astronomy

A 10-billion-year-old fossil

In the center of the Milky Way lie the remains of another galaxy that it cannibalized some 10 billion years ago

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Physiology

A new pair of salivary glands

Newly identified salivary glands are located in the area between the nose, ears, and throat

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Paleontolgy

The advanced brain of a primitive dinosaur

The brain of a well-preserved specimen of Buriolestes schultzi, one of the oldest known dinosaurs, has been reconstructed using computed tomography, suggesting an unusual evolutionary path for one of the most important lineages of this extinct group of reptiles: the sauropods

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Data

Number of PhD fellowships awarded by CAPES falls for the first time since 2007

Number of PhD fellowships awarded by CAPES falls for the first time since 2007

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Good practices

A retraction with explicit criticism

The Brain Research Bulletin announced the retraction of a 2017 article on the effect of the hormone erythropoietin in rats and it decided to clearly explain why

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Good practices

The impact of predatory journals

A paper analyzed the impact of 10 marketing journals by counting how many times their articles were cited in other periodicals in the same field

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Photolab

In the eye of a giant

Upon entry into operation, the Manacá beamline at the Sirius laboratory was directed at crystals of the 3CL protein, part of the mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 virus multiplies

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COVID-19

Monitoring the evolution of COVID-19

Blood levels of a particular protein can indicate the severity of coronavirus infections and guide the response of the attending health care team

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COVID-19

The impact of the virus on Australian universities

Universities in Australia are to receive extra funding to boost the country's economic recovery after the pandemic

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COVID-19

Coronavirus and the brain

A study confirms that the novel coronavirus can infect different types of brain cells, and may be capable of directly damaging the brain

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Nobel prize

A little less unequal

Four women were honored in three of the six Nobel Prize categories this year, the second-highest number in the history of the prestigious award

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Geology

Water on the near side of the moon

There is water on the Moon, and not only in the dark craters located near its poles

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Archaeology

A giant cat in the Peruvian desert

Archaeologists have identified a new geoglyph on the side of a hill in the desert between the Peruvian cities of Nazca and Palpa

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Paleontology

The blood parasites of a dinosaur

Brazilian paleontologists have identified fossilized blood parasites in the back leg bone of a titanosaur that lived some 85 million years ago

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Computation

Center for Artificial Intelligence

The Center for Artificial Intelligence, an engineering research center funded by FAPESP was inaugurated on October 13 at the University of São Paulo

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Funding

São Paulo representatives approve fiscal adjustment

Bill 529/2020, which establishes a range of measures for fiscal adjustment, was approved on October 14 by the São Paulo State Legislative Assembly

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Gender

Princeton to pay US$1.2 million to correct wage inequality

Princeton University has announced it will pay just under US$1 million in back pay to a group of 106 female professors

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Medicine

A jawbone made from fat cells

The researchers were able to regenerate the TMJ bone and cartilage of pigs, whose jaws are similar to those of humans, using stem cells obtained from the animals’ own fat

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