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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
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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
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Biologists uncover pollinating opossum
Almost 30 years after the suspicion was raised, discovery reduces the mystery of an unusual flower
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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'
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How does the Amazon controls Earth’s climate?
Physicist Paulo Artaxo, from USP, explains the Amazonian rainforest’s role in the water and carbon cycles in Brazil as well as globally
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Profile: Thoroh de Souza
Physicist and classical singer planned a research center aimed at making basic science into high technology products.
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Researchers are under threat. How can they protect themselves? – Resistance to science (EP1)
Video series discusses the confidence crisis and the atacks on scientific knowledge
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Programs track Amazon deforestation
PRODES and DETER systems, developed by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), have different and complementary roles. Understand how
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How to protect sharks
Research group tracks oceanic sharks and maps them onto fishing zones in order to propose conservation areas | 3'40"
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Plastic pollution, in numbers and pictures
Since the mid-20th century, an estimated 8,9 billion tons of plastics have been produced worldwide
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Characterizing ecosystems through sound
Acoustic information portrays environments and set natural changes apart from those caused by human action | 7'46"
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Dinosaurs probably originated in Southern Brazil
Paleontologists talk about characteristics and origins of dinos | 10'59"
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The eclipse which revolutionized physics
This Wednesday, May 29th, celebrates 100 years of the eclipse which was the first experimental proof of the Theory of General Relativity | 2'36"
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Fasting induces growth hormone to stimulate hunger
Researchers comment on their discovery that fasting makes growth hormone activate neurones which stimulate hunger
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Analyses show how Portinari produced his work
The findings can help confirm authorship of a painting found in what used to be his home and now is the Portinari House Museum
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Sirius, the largest and most complex Brazilian laboratory
Last generation source of synchrotron light may improve the quality of Brazilian research
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Promising winds ahead
Today, wind power energy is the third source of Brazil’s primary energy supply
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Oceanography
The sea’s advance
Brazilian beaches under erosive processes have increased from 40% to 60% since 2003.
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anthropology
How graffiti tensions art
Graffiti movement gave rise to São Paulo's own language
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Linguistics
For the survival of indigenous languages
Researchers seek to keep Brazilian native idioms from disappearing
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New species of colorful fish stuns researchers
Discovery off the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago is evidence of a unique and little known fauna
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Illegal Amazonia
Landowners in the state of Pará may be resorting to fraud to extract more timber than is allowed
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Profile
Eduardo Góes Neves
Archaeologist from MAE-USP summarizes his studies on how intense human occupation has shaped the Amazon forest
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Environment
Understanding water shortage
Specialists discuss water resources and how to preserve them
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Public health
Visceral leismaniasis gets to the metropolises
Diagnosis difficulties and warmer climate favor disease movement towards large urban centers
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Music
(Almost) unknown Villa-Lobos
Composition analyses showcase the composer's complex creation process
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Geoscience
Scars of a cataclysm in Central Brazil
Meteorite impact 250 million years ago caused earthquake and tsunami
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