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Behavior

How babies and other primates use touch

Human and chimpanzee babies both touch adult faces as a way of creating emotional bonds

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Environment

Ice sheet thickness averages 2,000 km

New map reveals Antarctica’s ice sheet is thicker and more voluminous than previously thought

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Agriculture

Robotic fruit-picking arm

Robotic arm capable of gently picking fruit without damaging it

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Public health

Weight-loss drugs change eating habits

Weight-loss drugs alter food preferences of the people who use them

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Acknowledgment

Álvaro Alberto Award

USP physicist receives Álvaro Alberto Award

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Climatology

Drier soil, more intense storms

Contrast in surface temperatures could worsen storms

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Archaeology

Hominids buried 110,000 years ago

Neanderthals and modern humans lived together and shared social customs

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Prolonged youth

The evolutionary enigma of the tiny transparent fish that never progresses past its juvenile form

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GOOD PRACTICES

End of a relationship

Journal editors rebel against publisher, announcing mass resignation and intention to create a new journal

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GOOD PRACTICES

Immediate disapproval

People accused of sexual harassment lose more citations than those accused of scientific misconduct, study finds

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Biodiversity

Nectar not from flowers

Survey identifies plants that produce nectar outside of their flowers, attracting ants that protect them

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Public health

Hypertension rate remains high

Almost one in four Brazilians has hypertension, a condition that mainly affects women and the elderly

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History

Celebrations around cerritos

Cerritos in present-day Rio Grande do Sul were the scene of pre-Columbian social and cultural rituals

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Education

More Brazilians with a university degree

Census shows that the number of people without an education has halved since 2000, while the number of graduates has tripled

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Environment

Harvesting fog in Atacama

Chilean researchers discover innovative way to harvest water from fog in the Atacama Desert

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Health

Keep video game volume low

WHO launches global standard to protect the hearing of children and young people who play video games

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Archaeology

The story of the avocado in Honduras

Fossilized specimens found in Honduras provide evidence of avocado domestication

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Climate change

1.5 billion m3 of rainfall in Rio Grande do Sul

1.5 billion m³ of rain fell in Porto Alegre and the surrounding region in May 2024

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Public policies

Deadly African roads

Africa leads in road deaths due to structural problems, such as poor roads and lack of law enforcement

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Genetics

Loss of genetic diversity encourages extinction

Decline in genetic diversity may have contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals

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Energy

Recyclable solar panels

Swedish scientists create recyclable perovskite solar cell

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Nutrition

Unsupervised dieting

One in ten children and teenagers presents some form of disordered eating behavior

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Astrophysics

The wandering Sun and the cooling Earth

Solar System passed through the Orion constellation, which may have influenced Earth's climate

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Ethology

Wolves domesticated themselves in search of food

Wild wolves approached humans in search of food and domesticated themselves

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DATA

MCTI spending increased significantly between 2020 and 2024

MCTI spending increased significantly between 2020 and 2024

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Queen of the Amazon

Water sample viewed under a microscope resembles a crown

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Women graduating from higher education in 2023

Data show proportion of women among higher education graduates in 2023

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GOOD PRACTICES

Behavior guide

Study examines the importance of codes of conduct to prevent sexual harassment at conferences

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GOOD PRACTICES

Unsustainable situation

Neuroscientist accused of manipulating images in Alzheimer's article resigns from university

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Geography

Erosion reshapes river mouths in Northeast Brazil

Intense erosion reshaping river mouths in Brazil’s Northeast and impacting ecosystems

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