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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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Astronomy

A star turned into spaghetti

A star was torn apart after nearing a black hole

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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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DATA

Scientific articles & economic activity

The graph presents data on GDP per capita and scientific articles published per million inhabitants for selected countries

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GOOD PRACTICES

Students and young scientists in Denmark accuse advisors and senior researchers of stealing ideas

Social media campaign gathered more than a hundred reports of misappropriation of intellectual work

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GOOD PRACTICES

How research on scientific integrity has evolved

Article finds a 12% annual increase in the number of papers on the topic published over the last three decades, as well as a rise in international collaborations

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GOOD PRACTICES

Linguist fired by Princeton claims he is a victim of political persecution

Joshua Katz, punished for having a relationship with a student, claims he was “canceled” for speaking out against an antiracist agenda

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Health

Postmortem analysis identifies brain lesions in individuals who developed depression as adults

Study involved samples from 741 men and women aged 60 to 84 stored in USP’s Biobank for Studies on Aging

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ECOLOGY

Solving the problem of honey diversity among native bees

With the help of scientists, states are establishing quality guidelines that differ from those used with Apis mellifera, the exotic species used as standard

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OPTICS

New system improves the performance of atomic-resolution microscopes

Innovation developed at UNICAMP launched on the global market by American company

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ASTROPHYSICS

Impressive sharpness of the first images from the James Webb telescope

Cosmic snapshots show the far reaches of the Universe in infrared, as well as star nurseries and clusters of galaxies

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Atmospheric Sciences

Global warming intensified torrential rainfall in northeastern Brazil and heatwaves in Europe

Studies suggest climate change caused by humans exacerbates extreme weather events, such as this year's torrential rainfall in Northeast Brazil

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Scientific production

Scientific papers on COVID-19 alter the balance of knowledge generation

More than 500,000 articles on the pandemic have been published in journals and preprint servers

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Letter from the Editor | 318

Independence, 200 years later

This issue’s letter from the editor, which usually features on page 7, has been moved to page 71, requiring a somewhat different approach. If the primary objective is to present the issue, what should be said when linear readers are already two-thirds of the way through the magazine? The Pesquisa FAPESP team meets on a... View Article

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images

Images of history, history of images

The illustrations created for this edition were based on iconography that originated from the facts and key characters of the Independence of Brazil, as well as other “portrayals” of the country produced during almost seven decades of its imperial rule. “Portrayals” is in quotation marks because as has been described, these images are more like... View Article

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SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION

Consolidated partnerships

Collaborations between Brazil and Portugal prioritize studies on new energies, particle physics, and the history of the two countries in the twentieth century

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History

Origins of Independência ou Morte!

Historian identifies French and Italian works that likely influenced the famed painting’s Brazilian author Pedro Américo

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Art

Selective memory

The director of the Paulista Museum at the beginning of the 20th century commissioned paintings to exclude depictions of popular participation in the fight for Brazil’s Independence

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geography

The surprises of old maps

Navy collection brought from Portugal in 1808 reveals cartographers and little-known phenomena

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Right

Brazil’s post-independence justice system broke away from, yet built on, the past

The country’s Judiciary was established amid major shifts in the late colonial period

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bicentennial

Brazil’s independence, from A to Z

New and diverse “Independence Dictionary” features 700 entries written by 276 different researchers from 11 countries

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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Science to help build a nation

Museums, research institutions, maps, and surveys of natural resources grew in importance in the Brazilian Empire

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History

Paper battle

Newspapers and political pamphlets spread ideas, questions, and controversies surrounding Brazil’s independence

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