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Civil engineering

High-tech construction sites

New technologies, digital tools, and mass production aim to raise productivity

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Astronautics

The private conquest of the Cosmos

A capsule of the company SpaceX flies to the International Space Station and may give the United States the capacity to put humans in orbit

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Zoology

The origin of perching birds

A group representing more than 60% of bird species originated in Australia 47 million years ago, study finds

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Zoology

The Alta Floresta titi

A new species of monkey is discovered in northern Mato Grosso State

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Animal nutrition

A diet of chicken and corn

Studies find that the majority of dog food in Brazil is based on a less-than-ideal formula of these two ingredients

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Geology

New copper finds north of Carajás

Survey reveals potentially vast reserves of the metal in the Bacajá region

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GEOGRAPHY

The young Amazon

Central region of the rainforest may have formed just 45,000 years ago as wetlands receded

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Interview

Peretz Lavie: Building an innovation ecosystem

The president of Technion talks about the principles and guidelines that led an Israeli university to becoming a global benchmark

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INNOVATION

Proliferating startups

Innovative life science companies attract investment in Lausanne, Switzerland

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Publications

Articles animated

Scientific journals publish videos to make research and experimental results more transparent and educational

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STEM education 

Giving wings to curiosity

Seventeenth edition of Brazilian Science & Engineering Fair brings together top science projects from across the country

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open access

How to survive without subscribing to scientific journals

Digital tools and social networks help students and researchers find articles online

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INTERVIEW

Jairton Dupont: The radical chemist

The specialist in ionic liquids defends a more open, pluralistic, and democratic university

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INTERVIEW

Daniel Kennefick: The importance of Sobral

An astrophysicist and science historian reports that without the observation of the eclipse in the city of Ceará, the experimental results of 1919 would probably have been inconclusive

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Cover

In the British expedition’s shadow

The Sobral eclipse was also observed by scientific expeditions from Brazil and the US

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COVER

When light bent

Observation of the 1919 solar eclipse from Brazil and Africa provided the first experimental proof of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity

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physics

A picture of sound

Image shows the interaction between shock waves generated by two fighter jets as they pass the speed of sound at about 1,230 kilometers per hour

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Physics

Physicist receives Brazil’s highest science and technology award

Vanderlei Bagnato, from the São Carlos Physics Institute (IFSC) at the University of São Paulo, is the 2019 winner of the Almirante Álvaro Alberto Award

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Engineering

Recognition for creators of GPS

Four engineers who created the first Global Positioning System (GPS) have received The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

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mathematics

The first woman to win the Abel Prize

American mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize, one of the most important awards in mathematics

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Astronomy

Organization established to build the world’s largest radio telescope

After three and a half years of negotiation, representatives from seven countries came together to sign a treaty establishing the intergovernmental organization that will oversee construction of the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array

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Nanotechnology

Fabric that controls heat and repels insects

Brazilian researchers and businesses are using textile fibers that contain nanometric particles to develop fabrics with special properties

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History

Ancient societies and rare diseases

In several ancient societies, people with deformities and rare diseases appear to have been given social support and special care

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biodiversity

Faster than a cheetah

Instead of waiting for insects to fly into its web, a small spider in the Theridiosomatidae family launches itself like a slingshot to catch the prey

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Public health

The fight against measles

The goal of eliminating the transmission of measles worldwide by 2020 is far from being achieved

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Geography

Boundaries between the Amazon and the Cerrado

In the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso, Pará, Tocantins, and Goiás, some areas classified as Cerrado are, in fact, part of the Amazon

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Environment

Air quality weighs heavy on health in Europe

Nearly 800,000 people in Europe die every year as a result of air pollution

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Data

R&D spending breakdown – USA (2017)

Of the US$542 billion spent on research and development (R&D) in the United States in 2017, 73% was invested by businesses and 13% by universities

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Good practices

Editor fired for homophobia

The American Heart Association dismissed cardiologist Roberto Bolli from his position as editor in chief of its journal Circulation Research

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GOOD PRACTICES

Why do authors publish in predatory journals?

Why do authors publish in predatory journals that do not properly review articles and are more interested in making money than maintaining a good reputation?

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