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Techniques in the search for a vaccine against Covid-19

Teams from several countries head projects seeking to produce imunizing agents in a short time

How does deforestation relate to new pandemics?

See how environmental degradation can favor the emergence of unknown viruses and unleash diseases such as the one caused by the novel coronavirus.

How do rivers and floodplains influence species formation in Amazonia?

Throughout millenia, water bodies and landscape changes favor plant and animal diversification in the region

Predicting the spread of a disease

Altay de Souza, an epidemiologist and host of the podcast Naruhodo!, explain how the models which predict the coronavirus advance are built

A blue pigment from beets

How chemist Erick Bastos' team, from the Chemistry Institute of the University of São Paulo, created a natural dye with industrial potential | 2'48

These parrots use probability to get food

Biologist Amalia Bastos shows that birds from New Zealand can make calculations that so far only humans and chimpanzees were known to use

Biologists uncover pollinating opossum

Almost 30 years after the suspicion was raised, discovery reduces the mystery of an unusual flower

Research funding at American universities

R&D expenditure at universities in the US has grown rapidly since 2015

Punished after reporting colleagues

An investigation by the Canadian Association of University Teachers found that the leaders of Thompson Rivers University violated the academic freedom of one of its professors

Retraction overview

A researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, published a paper that gives a comprehensive overview of scientific articles retracted due to errors, bias, fraud, or plagiarism

New glyphs found in the Peruvian desert

Archaeologists from Japan have identified 143 new drawings—or geoglyphs—of animals, plants, and people in the Nazca desert, near the coast of Peru

Pirarucu scales form a special armor

The composition and structure of pirarucu scales make them highly resistant to punctures and tension

Science personalities 2019

Brazilian physicist Ricardo Galvão features on the journal Nature's list of the ten most influential people in science in 2019

Why the Nile is so unchanging

The Nile has followed the same path in North Africa for almost 30 million years

FAPESP appoints new scientific director

Neuroscientist Luiz Eugênio Araújo de Morais Mello has officially been appointed scientific director of FAPESP by the governor of São Paulo, João Doria

Understanding the Brazilian genome

Researchers launched an initiative with the aim of mapping the genome of 15,000 Brazilians aged 35–74

Probe reveals origin of solar winds

The Parker Solar Probe space probe has been closer to the Sun than any other manmade object, and it is expected to get even closer over the next seven years of its mission

Technological skin

Shark's skin feels smooth if you run your hand from head to tail, but rough in reverse

Calcium for tomatoes

How evangelical rise changes Brazilian society

In 10 years, followers increased by 61% and reached a range of participation spheres, such as Parliament. Paula Montero and Jacqueline Moraes Teixeira, from USP, and Fábio Lacerda, from Cebrap, explain how | 14'

The predator with voracious jaws

A fossil discovered in Rio Grande do Sul is the best-preserved representative of the herrerasauridae, one of the first strains of carnivorous dinosaur

Titan’s landscape

Of all the celestial bodies in our solar system, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has the most similar geology to Earth

Antibiotics and meat production

Almost three quarters of all antibiotics sold worldwide are used in the production of animals for meat

Kissing bug infestations in the city of São Paulo

Two infestations of kissing bugs, insects that transmit the protozoa that causes Chagas disease, have been identified in the city of São Paulo

People of color in higher education

For the first time in Brazil's history, people of color represent the majority of students enrolled in public higher education institutions

Deforestation increases, CO₂ emissions stabilize

The rate of deforestation in the Legal Amazon increased by 30% between August 2018 and July 2019

Biological engineering

Lab-made vascular cells actively produce a coagulation factor

Flawed theory retracted

The idea that HIV may not be the cause of AIDS was suggested in the 1990s, but completely discredited when drugs were created that prevented replication of the virus and eliminated the symptoms of the syndrome

Purdue researcher admits fraud

At a US district court, Qingyou Han, director of Purdue University's Center for Materials Processing Research, admitted defrauding the NSF, the USA's largest research funding agency

Formal employment in engineering

Crisis leads to drop in formal employment in engineering