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The roots of knowledge

Installed a decade ago in its own building at Quinta da Boa Vista, the herbarium survived intact

Saved fauna

The National Museum and USP Zoology Museum hold vast animal collections that can be difficult to preserve

The ruins of rare stones

The geology and paleontology collection at the National Museum contained 70,000 pieces, such as meteorites, unique pterosaurs, and mineral specimens from the Portuguese royal family

Niède Guidon: “I’m going to open the Museum of Nature and then I will rest”

After four decades in the Serra da Capivara, the archaeologist confirms that she will leave Piauí after the opening of the new exhibition space

A new window on the sertão

The foundation created by archaeologist Niède Guidon is set to inaugurate its Museum of Nature in December at Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí

Prehistory in pieces

The skull of Luzia and a 2,800-year-old Egyptian mummy were among the more than 100,000 items in the archaeology and biological anthropology collections

Rebuilding heritage

Partnerships with indigenous peoples and community associations will be decisive to the restoration of ethnographic and linguistic collections

Studies in jeopardy

Fire affects six of the institution’s graduate programs, of which two are world-class

Memories indelible by fire

For 200 years, the National Museum contributed knowledge in the natural sciences and inspired the creation of several other science museums

Centers for generating knowledge

University museums organize exhibitions, administer graduate programs, and do research

Strategies to keep museums healthy

Financial sustainability and flexible management are challenges facing museum managers

Dashed hopes

The National Museum was preparing for a revitalization project when it was obliterated by fire

The pain of loss

Six hours of fire destroyed 200 years of heritage at the largest natural-history museum in Latin America

Innovation, climate, and sustainable development

American researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their contributions to integrating innovation and climate change policies into the analysis of long-term economic growth

Combating sexual violence as a weapon of war

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Iraqi activist Nadia Murad and Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege

Directed protein evolution

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared by three researchers who controlled genetic changes and selective processes in a laboratory

More powerful lasers and optical tweezers

In physics, Nobel acknowledged the work of two researchers who created a way of producing more powerful laser sources, and a third scientist who expanded their use to investigate phenomena on the scale of cells and atomic particles

Immunotherapy for fighting cancer

Two immunologists shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

DNA helps track ivory traffickers

Genetic studies are helping to shape government policies against international ivory trafficking in the US and Africa

Twenty years since it first launched, SciELO announces preprints platform

SciELO announced plans to create a preprints repository in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project

Marco Antonio Zago is new FAPESP president

Marco Antonio Zago took over as president of FAPESP on the morning of October 5

Higgs, a well-behaved boson

Physicists have been investigating how the Higgs boson particle interacts with others

405-year-old letter suggests Galileo toned down his beliefs

A letter found at the Royal Society in London suggests that Galileo Galilei softened his stance against the ecclesiastical doctrine that the Sun orbited Earth to avoid arrest by the Roman Inquisition

Vibrations created by light in mirrors

An international group of researchers accurately isolated and measured the vibrations generated when a beam of light touches the surface of a mirror and is reflected back

Mangroves store more carbon than the rainforest

In the Amazon, every hectare of mangrove contains twice as much carbon as the same area of inland forest

Higher education

Distance learning grows in popularity while graduation rates remain low

Research hospital director resigns amid conflicts of interest

Medical director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York has stepped down

Publish or Perish

Open-access scientific journal Nutrients recently lost all ten of its senior editors

Habitual fraud

Japanese researchers lead the list of scientists with the highest number of retracted articles

The role of museums