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Good practices
Cash reward for finding errors in influential articles
Over the next four years, a program based at the University of Bern, Switzerland, will pay experts to look for errors in over one hundred influential scientific articles. The more problems they find, the more money they will receive. Each will be paid a minimum of US$285 if they find nothing, rising to more than... View Article
By Redação
Good practices
Scientist who publishes more than one paper per week has had 20 retracted
Saudi pharmacist Nabil Alhakamy has published 219 scientific articles since 2020—an average of more than one per week. The quality of his academic work, however, is now under question: more than 20 of his articles have been retracted in recent years, mostly due to problems with images and figures. The most recent was a paper... View Article
By Redação
PUBLIC POLICY
Report identifies 476 invasive species in Brazil
Invasive plant and animal species threaten biodiversity and cause damage
Cover
Brazil getting drier
Global warming makes the climate less humid, leading to emergence of the country’s first arid zone
By Marcos Pivetta and Renata Fontanetto
Paleontology
Plentiful hunting in the rivers
Turtle fossil found in a mine in the Madeira River basin belonged to one of the largest species ever described
By Redação
History
Shipwrecks record history of slavery
Archaeologists in the Bahamas identify 14 slave ships that sank between 1767 and 1860
By Redação
COVID-19
Even after being destroyed, the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc
Even when broken apart by the human immune system, the SARS-CoV-2 virus still causes excessive inflammation
By Redação
Computing
Carbonized ancient philosophy
Brazilian team is among the winners of the international Vesuvius Challenge to identify writing on carbonized scrolls
By Redação
Acknowledgment
New USP representatives at FAPESP
Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda, Marcílio Alves, and Marco Antonio Zago appointed to the FAPESP Board of Trustees
By Redação
Innovation
Fireflies of the plant world
Bioluminescent plant that emits green light in the dark goes on sale in the USA
By Redação
Projects
More researchers submitting applications
In 2023, FAPESP received 4,483 proposals from researchers who had never before requested funding
By Redação
Agriculture
Who’s afraid of European legislation?
Agricultural sectors prepare to adapt to new European regulations requiring proof that products do not originate from land deforested after 2020
By Redação
Digital
Virtual tour of Darwin’s library
British naturalist Charles Darwin’s library is now available online
By Redação
Zoology
The smallest vertebrate in the world
Flea toad (Brachycephalus pulex), from Bahia, is the smallest known vertebrate
By Redação
Technology
Artificial intelligence against mosquitoes
Artificial intelligence helps identify breeding sites of the Aedes aegypti mosquito
By Redação
Atmospheric sciences
Water flows through the atmosphere and makes rain
System monitors atmospheric rivers, responsible for much of the rain that falls on Earth
By Redação
Public health
More arguments against vapes
Brazilian Society of Cardiology supports the ban on electronic cigarettes
By Redação
Letter from the editor | 338
The new normal
The water cycle is one of the first science subjects that children learn about at school. An image shows the absorption of water by plants, then transpiration, condensation, precipitation in the form of rain or snow, runoff, and evaporation. The same school lesson covers the basic concepts of a very worrying question: is Brazil getting... View Article
Research itineraries
Putting on a show
Physicist George Sand de França divides his time between academia and the art of clowning
Musicology
Collection explores musical diversity across regions of Brazil
Collection explores musical diversity across regions of Brazil
By Diego Viana
Visual arts
Mário Pedrosa highlighted the artwork of marginalized groups
The story of one of Brazil's most important critics is intertwined with the history of the twentieth century
By Juliana Vaz