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Czech politicians resign over academic plagiarism

Two government ministers in the Czech Republic have recently resigned amid accusations of having plagiarized their university theses

The specter of predatory journals in Brazil

Study shows how many researchers in the country are publishing in suspicious journals

Public health challenges

Aquatic Forest

Loxopholis ferreirai is endemic to the Amazon rainforest

High-level delivery

Akaer Group poises to become a global provider of aerospace systems and components

Lab-made art

Artists use tools from science to craft their work

From the barracks to the laboratory

Researcher Adolfo José da Mota pursued a military career in the Air Force before becoming a professor at the Federal University of Amazonas

A Mother’s Résumé

Research project estimates the impact of motherhood on scientific careers

German engineering

Germans boosted the development of the urban infrastructure in São Paulo in the 19^th century.

John Kincaid and Paolo Dardanelli: Power balance

Researchers investigate the relationship between federal, state, and local governments

Between transgression and art

A research project analyzes how the pixação graffiti movement in São Paulo developed its own language of expression and became a force in art circles

International pregnancy

Demand for assisted reproduction increases foreign genetic material in Brazil

Fernando Martins: Digital agriculture

Engineer explains how agribusiness benefits and grows with the support of new tools like the internet of things

Surveillance at sea

Radar designed to detect ships beyond the curvature of the earth uses a new tracking system developed in Brazil

Battles never ending

The Society works to gain recognition for researchers and plays an active role in some of the great science debates in Brazil

A meteorite in Serra Pelada

Fragments of one of the largest asteroids in the solar system recovered by researchers in Amazonia

Underwater Forest

Coral reefs at the mouth of the Amazon River may be larger, deeper, and more complex than expected

José Goldemberg: From nuclear physics to ethanol

Researcher speaks of his major contributions to science

Energy to change

Conference discusses the role of biofuels in fighting global warming

A more varied menu

Leafcutter ants can grow and eat various species of fungi, not just one, as had been previously thought

Tax Law for Cancer

Program receives more tax-exemption funds for treatment than for research into the disease

Patent War

Researchers locked in legal battle for property rights linked to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool

Closer links with industry

UNICAMP is Brazil’s highest-ranked university for patent applications, and USP for licensing royalties

Cartoon Science

The rising popularity of comic strips in science and research communication

Edgar Dutra Zanotto: One eye on science, the other on industry

Engineer provides insight into how artificial intelligence will help develop novel types of glass and explains his new definition of the material

The race for the best light

Sirius will compete with both a fourth-generation facility inaugurated in 2016 in Sweden, and another planned to begin operating in 2020 in France

Leaping towards brilliance

Now in its final stage of construction, the latest-generation synchrotron light source could elevate the quality of Brazilian research

The mysterious death of the baobabs

Between 2005 and 2017, researchers conducted an extensive survey of the largest known baobab species

Missed education targets

70% of the goals set out by the National Education Plan for 2014–2017 were not achieved

Try not to complain that the days are too short

Some 1.4 billion years ago, Earth rotated faster and the days were only 18 hours and 40 minutes long