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Logging on the rise in Europe

The growing timber industry in the European Union may prevent the region from reaching its goal of being carbon neutral by 2050

Rescuing UFMG’s museum collection

The quick response of the Collection Preservation Management Commission of the Federal University of Minas Gerais has proven fundamental to rescuing technical reserve collection 1 of the university’s Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden, struck by a fire on June 16

Lasting action against HIV

Researchers at American pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences have published the results of clinical trials of a new long-acting antiretroviral against HIV

Dinosaur or lizard?

Lead in the Paris air

A ton of lead may have been deposited over a 1 kilometer radius around Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris as a result of the April 2019 fire

Nanocellulose sensors

Microbial nanocellulose could be used to make electrochemical sensors that attach to the skin to monitor health conditions or physical performance

Heading for Mars

The United Arab Emirates launched its first interplanetary space probe from a space center in Japan

Asteroid showers on Earth and the Moon

About 800 million years ago, fragments of a large asteroid collided with Earth and the Moon

Venomous amphibians

Caecilians are venomous animals, capable of injecting venom into their prey, say researchers from the Butantan Institute

South American megaflashes

The longest lightning bolt ever recorded stretched 709 kilometers across southern Brazil on October 31, 2018, the World Meteorological Organization reported in June

The first voyages across the Pacific

The first inhabitants of Polynesia had contact with native peoples from the Americas just over 800 years ago

Business R&D spending falls sharply

Spending on research and development by businesses fell nationwide and in São Paulo compared to 2014

Appointment canceled after scandal

The Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine in Padua, Italy, revoked geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi’s appointment as scientific director after members of its scientific advisory board resigned en masse in protest

The limits of text recycling

A group of researchers is analyzing the extent to which an author can reuse excerpts of their own academic work in new papers without being accused of plagiarism

A look through the lens

Iny: o brilho dos espíritos, which captures a ritual of the Karajá people from the state of Mato Grosso, placed first in the Images Produced by Cameras category of the Science & Art Photography Prize

Research during quarantine

Risk of increase in child labor

The reduced income and increased economic insecurity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a rise in child labor rates in Latin America and the Caribbean

A SARS-CoV-2-proof fabric

Researchers from São Paulo–based company Nanox have developed a fabric containing silver nanoparticles that can inactivate the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2

Platform gathers data on Brazilians with COVID-19

The COVID-19 Data Sharing/BR platform is a repository of clinical, laboratory and demographic data on people diagnosed with the infection in the country

More than 100 different strains of the novel coronavirus identified in Brazil

More than 100 strains of SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Brazil, but only three spread across the country

3.1 million lives saved in Europe

The strict social distancing and lockdown measures implemented in 11 European countries before May 4 may have prevented 3.1 million COVID-19 deaths

At risk of disappearing

Hundreds of species of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals are at risk of disappearing in the next two decades as a result of environmental degradation caused by humans

In space and the deep sea

American geologist, oceanographer and former astronaut Kathy Sullivan, 68, is the first person to walk in space and to dive to the deepest point of the ocean

From cocoons to bones

A team has developed a potentially simpler, faster, and cheaper strategy for producing a biocompatible material that can be used as a scaffold for repairing long bones

Pesquisa FAPESP journalist wins José Reis award

Carlos Henrique Fioravanti has been named winner of the most important recognition afforded to professionals reporting on science and technology in Brazil

A historic flight

On May 31, American astronauts arrived at the International Space Station for a three-month mission

Companies and researchers against racism

Amid the anti-racism demonstrations that took place in June after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, USA, multinational tech company IBM decided to suspend development of all facial recognition systems

A moon on the move

Titan, the largest of Saturn's 82 moons, is moving away from the planet almost 100 times faster than previously estimated

Archaeology without excavation

Archaeologists have mapped an entire Ancient Roman city without carrying out a single excavation

A colossal eruption

One of the largest volcanic eruptions to have left a record on Earth occurred 8.7 million years ago