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Astronomy
Korean Mission to the Moon
South Korea sent its first mission to the moon in August
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Funding
Risk of funding cuts
Senate approves provisional measure to invest in renewal of trucks, buses, and vans in Brazil
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Nanotechnology
Rupture-resistant nanowires
Brazilian researchers observed in atomic-scale the formation and rupture of zirconium dioxide ionic cables
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History
Drought caused collapse of Mayan capital
Lack of water was behind the civil conflicts that led to the fall of the Mayan capital in present-day Mexico
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Environment
Potential for jobs in the environmental sector
National survey estimates jobs available in the environmental sector until 2030
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Acknowledgment
UNICAMP physicist and UFRJ biophysicist win national award
Physicist from Unicamp and biophysicist from UFRJ were awarded in the 4th edition of the event
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Geophysics
Earthquakes in the sky
Atmospheric balloons at altitude of 20 kilometers detect earthquake in Indonesia
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Linguistics
The secret to speech: a simplified larynx
Images of the larynx indicate why humans are the only primates that can talk
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Environment
Arctic warming faster than the rest of the world
The Arctic may be warming much faster than experts previously thought
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Physics
Diving from 8 meters high can lead to injury
Mannequins fitted with sensors indicate that diving from 8 meters high can cause injuries
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Botanics
Queen of the water lilies
Victoria boliviana is the newest species of giant water lily to be recognized by science
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COVID-19
The pandemic and bats
Bats unfairly persecuted after being presented in the news as reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
New member of the Board of Trustees
Infectious disease specialist David Uip is the newest member of FAPESP's Board of Trustees
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ASTRONOMY
Preventing impact with Earth
Simulations used to find the best strategy for diverting an asteroid on a collision course with Earth
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GENDER
Women researchers still receive less credit than men
Women researchers still receive less credit than men in all scientific fields
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BIOMECHANICS
Why woodpeckers do not suffer from headaches
Why woodpeckers do not suffer headaches, despite pecking tree trunks almost 20 times per second
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Ukrainian wins the Fields Medal
Ukraine’s Maryna Viazovska wins the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious honors in mathematics
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MEDICINE
The resurgence of the Sabiá virus
Two new cases of Brazilian hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Sabiá virus, have been identified
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Public health
Number of unvaccinated children rises
Brazil was one of the countries most affected by falling childhood vaccination in 2021
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biodiversity
From captivity to the skies
Eight Spix’s macaws bred in captivity were released into the wild in Bahia
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Astronomy
Two planets, similar but different
Known as the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune are similar in composition, mass, and size, but they are different shades of blue
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Recognition
Carlos Joly wins 2022 Conrado Wessel award
UNICAMP’s Carlos Joly wins the 2022 FCW Science Award
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PALEONTOLOGY
Fred the wandering mastodon
Researchers identify the migratory routes of a mastodon that died approximately 13,200 years ago
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ASTROPHYSICS
Astronomers identify 30 exocomets in Beta Pictoris
Astronomers identify at least 30 exocomets orbiting the extrasolar system Beta Pictoris
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Financing
UK set to lose funding
United Kingdom could be excluded from European science program
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OCEANOGRAPHY
A refuge for giant algae
Southern coast of Chile appears to be a safe haven for giant kelp forests
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Environment
Forests and water supply in the USA
USA’s national forest system produces almost half of all water used in the country
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