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In violin bow construction, each wood type is unique
Biologist Eduardo Longui, from the Forest Institute of São Paulo, and architect and bowmaker Daniel Lombardi search for alternatives to brazilwood for manufacturing bows for cellos and violins. | 10'03
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Matamata, a bizarre turtle from Amazonia
The description of a new species may help fighting against illegal trafficking of these rainforest animals | 4'03
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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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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