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The water hyacinth is the most invasive plant in the world

Report identifies the water hyacinth as the most widespread invasive species in the world

Smart socks for the elderly

Smart socks offer new option for remote monitoring of dementia patients

After the Moon, the Sun

In early September, India launched its first solar observation mission, Aditya-L1

Children also suffer from violence against women

Domestic violence also harms children who witness it

The duo that makes cavities worse

Bacteria detected in children with cavities function jointly to produce corrosive acids

Your dog is not just sleeping

Even in deep sleep, dogs' brains remain alert and capable of distinguishing between different sounds

Enzyme for aviation fuels

Enzyme could replace catalysts used in aviation biokerosene production

Brazilian archaeological sites online

Website provides information on 3,769 dated artifacts from 1,249 Brazilian archaeological sites

Greater risk of being hit

Driverless cars are less able to identify minority groups, putting them at greater risk of accidents

Agreement to accelerate transition to clean energy in Africa

Partnership seeks to identify, fast-track, and scale clean energy projects across Africa

When defense attacks

Inflammation can damage healthy cells and contribute to the progression of Alzheimer's

The monkey that crossed the Atlantic

Extinct 230-gram monkey sparks new discussions about the origin of South American primates

Thousands of chicks die in Antarctica

Climate change kills thousands of emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica

Intense heat, smaller harvests

Soybean yield has fallen by 6% for every 1 °C increase in temperature since the 1980s

Higher mortality in metropolises

Heatwaves linked to almost 50,000 deaths in Brazilian metropolises between 2000 and 2018

Above the forest

AmazonFACE towers will monitor how the Amazon rainforest responds to rising CO₂ levels

Art that imitates life

Biologist and taxidermist Paulo César Balduíno has spent almost 40 years preparing animals for scientific collections and museum exhibitions

An ongoing epidemic

Identified 40 years ago, HIV has changed the way we look at infectious diseases

The coordinator

Mathematician Antonio Galves fostered partnerships and contributed to advances in physics, linguistics, and neuroscience

Ice and fire

Environmental engineer Alberto Setzer led Brazil’s Antarctic meteorology project and INPE’s fire monitoring program

Research examines the activities of Italian photographers in Brazil between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Almost-forgotten professionals had a major impact on the early days of Brazilian photography

Records kept at Brazil’s Federal Revenue help map evangelical expansion in the country

Researcher created an algorithm that shows where places of worship were built between 1922 and 2019

Traffic deaths increase by 13.5% in the last decade

Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among young people in Latin America

Modified cardboard sensor with gold particles could monitor water quality

The objective is for the public to use the device to check that the water supplied to their home is fit for consumption

The challenge of recycling lithium batteries

Research groups in Brazil work on new techniques to separate and reuse the metals contained in these energy-storage modules

The impacts of microplastics on human health

Studies using different cell cultures show that microplastics can cause structural and inflammatory lesions

Microplastics found along the Brazilian coastline

The Santos estuary is one of the locations that suffers most from microplastic waste, which has been found on the beach, in the water, and at the bottom of the sea, from Pará to Rio Grande do Sul

The effects of subsistence hunting in sustainable-use reserves in the Amazon

Impacts on animal populations are greater within five kilometers of human communities

The long history of bees

The pollinating insects are estimated to have appeared 120 million years ago on the Western Gondwana supercontinent, formed by what is currently South America and Africa