Redação

Funding

Endowment fund veto overturned

Brazilian Congress rescinded a veto by President Jair Bolsonaro that prevented foundations that fund public universities from acting as managers of philanthropic funds known as endowment funds

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Astronomy

Mystery on the Moon

Near the South Pole of the Moon, on the side not seen from Earth, there is a crater of colossal proportions

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Education

Refugees better educated than the average Brazilian

Most refugees arriving in Brazil have a high-school diploma (while one-third have a degree) and are working

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Medicine

Jean Purdy’s overlooked contribution to IVF

British nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy made a decisive contribution to the development of in vitro fertilization

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Medicine

Fecal transplant tragedy

The US FDA has suspended clinical trials of fecal microbiota transplantation

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paleontology

A new sharp-clawed dinosaur

Vespersaurus paranaensis is the first dinosaur to be found in this state in southern Brazil

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Good practices

Academy may expel members for misconduct

The US National Academy of Sciences has announced a change to its bylaws to allow the expulsion of members who violate the organization's code of conduct

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Good practices

Is it possible to derive good from evil?

The quality and usefulness of the Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy is now raising ethical questions

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PHOTOLAB

Laboratory brain

Biologist Caroline Brandão Teles has been studying the relationship between schizophrenia and defects in neural cells known as oligodendrocytes—which she has been attempting to create from stem cells

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Data

Spending at universities with a high number of graduate students

Spending at universities with a high number of graduate students

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Botany

Plants with miner roots

Study demonstrates a new function of the roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha

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Medicine

Stroke deaths fall by 30% in 15 years

The survey was based on death records available from the Brazilian Ministry of Health's national health information system

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2020

European Research Council appoints new president

Italian engineer Mauro Ferrari will take over the presidency of the European Research Council

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Evolution

A 42-million-year-old whale with legs

Its limbs were well adapted to swimming and were not suited to moving across land

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Environment

The long goodbye of the glaciers

Mountain glaciers in southwestern Argentina and northeastern Spain are rapidly losing ice and could disappear completely by the end of the century

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Communication

Plan S pushed back to 2021

The decision was made to give scientific publishers more time to transform their current subscription journals into publications whose costs are covered exclusively by article authors, with no fees for readers

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Physics

UNICAMP dean wins José Reis award

The panel of judges highlighted "the scope and diversity of his scientific communication work, including his contributions to education in this field"

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Archaeology

Ancient use of psychoactive substances in Bolivia

An international team of anthropologists and bioarchaeologists has identified traces of hallucinogenic substances in a 1,000-year-old leather bag found in the Bolivian Andes

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Archaeology

São Paulo’s largest rock art

Scientists working on an exploratory research project that began in 2014 have discovered an 80-meter piece of rock art in Ribeirão Bonito, in the center of São Paulo State

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Mobility

Ride-sharing apps worsen traffic

According to research, Uber and Lyft are behind increased congestion on the streets of San Francisco

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Biodiversity

Animals and plants at risk

Up to one million plant and animal species worldwide are facing extinction due to severe population decline and habitat loss

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Data

Scientific publications and international collaborations

International collaborations in 2018 (%)

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Good practices

Lack of Transparency

Most research universities in the European Union have failed to comply with the 2014 rule that the results of clinical trials must be made public within 12 months

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Good practices

Punishment after 40 years of harassment at Harvard

Harvard University, USA, has revoked the emeritus status of sociologist Jorge Dominguez, a former professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and was vice provost for international affairs at the institution from 2006 to 2015

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PHOTOLAB

The aesthetics of imperfection

A large electric voltage bias is used to spin ultrafine nanometric fibers into membranes that can filter water

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SURVEY MANAGEMENT 

The imaginary lands of Pará

The 22.7 million hectares of private land and 18.5 million hectares of public land that only exist on paper

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Engineering

Guidelines for engineering courses

The Brazilian Ministry of Education has approved a set of guidelines that aims to update the curriculum of engineering degrees in the country

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Neuroscience

Partially revived brains

Researchers partially revived the brains of pigs four hours after the animals were slaughtered for human consumption

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Biology

The changing venom of a stingray

Stingray venom changes as the fish mature

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Archaeology

New species of primitive humans

Homo luzonensis may have lived in the region more than 50,000 years ago

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