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24-hour challenge

Competition asks programming students to tackle real-world problems

A free space for creativity

Hackerspaces—locations that bring technology aficionados together—are multiplying across the country

Zika against cancer

The Zika virus is being tested as a tool for treating aggressive tumors of the central nervous system

A barrier against HIV

New medication to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus is adopted and evaluated in Brazil

Hidden incidence

Cases of Hansen’s disease in children in the Amazon suggest that available figures underestimate the disease

Creative turbulence

Stimulating random fluctuations may increase energy production in nuclear fusion reactors

The rain that united two forests

Periods of heavy rainfall between 120,000 and 12,000 years ago may have connected the Atlantic Forest to the Amazon

The Metamorphoses of the Atlantic Forest

Survey of 2,000 species shows a predominance of small animals and resistance to forest fragmentation

Cristiana Simão Seixas: How to measure the value of nature

Biologist who coordinated assessment of biodiversity in the Americas shares strategies to slow down losses

A strategy for research data

Researchers are being encouraged to better manage and share the data they produce

The battle for quality

Companies and universities discuss strategies for improving engineering education

Bernardete Angelina Gatti: Toward better teacher education policy

A researcher discusses barriers and challenges in training new educators

More people in the rainforest

New archaeological sites and evidence of plant domestication support the idea that pre-Columbian Amazonia was densely populated

CONPRESP protects USP buildings

The São Paulo Council for the Preservation of Historical, Cultural, and Environmental Heritage registered four more University of São Paulo buildings

The isolated jaguars of Espírito Santo State

Researchers tries to to learn more about the largest feline on the continent, the jaguar

Molecule created in a laboratory

Researchers used laser beams to bump two atoms together, creating a molecule

A swarm of black holes

Astrophysicists have discovered a dozen stellar-mass black holes (some larger than the Sun) in the center of the Milky Way

Fishing scenes in the Atacama

The people who inhabited the northern coast of Chile before European colonization may have been skilled fishermen and marine hunters

Caution with antibiotics and antacids

Antibiotics and antacids can lead to the development of allergies later in life

Reducing household pollution

A review article argues in favor of replacing household stoves that run on biofuel with ones that use liquefied petroleum gas

Data scientists reconstruct the rhetoric of the French Revolution

Researchers used data mining techniques to analyze transcripts of 40,000 speeches made at the National Constituent Assembly

New test for brucellosis

Cheese and milk produced without sanitary inspection can cause brucellosis

Sahara Desert grows by 10% in a century

The Sahara has grown by about 10% over the last century and today occupies an area of almost 7.4 million km²

Graduates in engineering and related fields

Editor resigns after accusations of harassment

The American Journal of Political Science former editor William Jacoby resigned from his position amid allegations of sexual harassment

A network for reproducing scientific experiments

A group of researchers are organizing a network of laboratories to repeat up to 100 biomedical experiments in order to verify the reproducibility of the results

Misconduct in proposal review process

US National Institutes of Health investigates suspected confidentiality breaches and reciprocal favors

Amazing Amazonia

Laser faucet

System simulates how light travels through the icy clouds of interstellar media

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