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Careers

Pause for reflection

Popularized in the USA at the end of the nineteenth century, sabbatical leave provides an opportunity for personal growth and can provide professional benefits

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Data

Scientific publications by country: number of authors and number of articles

The 2020 State of US Science and Engineering report, published by the National Science Foundation, shows the number of scientific articles per country from 2000 to 2018

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Good practices

Article retracted by Nobel Prize winner

Frances Arnold, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the evolution of enzymes, announced on Twitter that her group was retracting a scientific article published last year

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Good practices

Guidelines canceled after opioid crisis

The World Health Organization has announced the retraction of two guidelines on the use of opioidsfor pain control

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Good practices

Employees or spies?

Report recommends ways of preventing foreign influence on research in the USA

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Obituary

The machine man

Engineer and physicist Ricardo Rodrigues was the designer of Sirius, the most complex and versatile research instrument ever built in Brazil

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Obituary

An anthropologist of violence

Alba Zaluar, a pioneer in crime and social policy studies, dies at 77

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Retrospect

Cameras in the operating room

Photographer and filmmaker Benedito Duarte has produced around 500 documentaries on medical activities and research in São Paulo

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History

A feast for historians

New studies help to explain how changing eating habits shaped culture and the economy in São Paulo and Recife

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Interview

Adrian Lavalle: The exercise of democracy

A study on non-electoral control mechanisms reveals the innovative character of the Brazilian experience

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International Relations

A look at the United States

Eleven years after its establishment, a research institute focuses on systematizing knowledge about the most powerful country on the planet

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Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years

Innovation at atomic scale

Pesquisa FAPESP has closely followed developments in the field of nanotechnology

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Nanotechnology 

Going global

Conceived at a São Paulo university, a company specializing in nanotechnological solutions looks to go international

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Financial Services 

The fintech wave

Financial technology startups are becoming mainstream and disrupting the banking industry

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Physics

Germanium energy

New material could increase the durability and safety of lithium batteries

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Population genetics

The last of the Tupiniquim

Indigenous people from Espírito Santo reached the Brazilian coastline 1,200 years ago and later met European colonizers during the Age of Discovery

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Zoology

Rescuing the watercolors

New book gathers more than 500 "lost" drawings of Brazilian fish produced during a 19th century expedition

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Ecology

Pollinating ants

The ant species Camponotus crassus is the primary fertilizer of the evergreen plant species Paepalanthus lundii, endemic to the Cerrado of Minas Gerais

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Interview

Eva Zažímalová: Eyes on the world

President of the Czech Academy of Sciences discusses strategies to integrate science internationally and bring it closer to industry

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Indicators

The geography of innovation

New methodology measures science and technology performance across Brazilian states

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Public Policy

Disjointed strategies

Audit places deficient cross-institutional coordination at the root of poor innovation performance in Brazil

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Climate change

Australia on fire

Record-breaking heat and drought levels cause fires that cover an area 2.5 times the size of the 2019 Amazon fires

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Interview

Thelma Krug: The climate negotiator

Mathematician and vice president of the IPCC talks about environmental policy debates and Brazil's image abroad

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Interview

Heather Lombardi: Support for gene editing

FDA official says the agency is in favor of editing the genomes of living organisms to create products that benefit society

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Cover

A scientific hitch

Unexpected bacterial DNA found in the genome of genetically modified bulls impacts the plans of companies in the USA and Brazil

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Interview

Graham Dellaire: Science with caution

Molecular biologist says ethical use of gene editing depends on broad consensus and a shift in scientific culture

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Cover

Gene scissors

Human tests attempt to determine whether DNA cutting and editing is a safe way to treat diseases

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Genetics

A molecular lifespan clock

Biologists analyzed the genome of 252 animal species and found a genetic trait that they propose serves as a molecular clock for lifespan

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Communication

From science fair to published paper

The Canadian Science Fair Journal has published more than 50 scientific articles written by authors under the age of 18

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Technology

Contact lenses that monitor health

South Korean researchers have taken an important step towards creating a contact lens capable of measuring certain health parameters

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