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Academy expels researchers for sexual harassment

The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has expelled researchers accused of sexual harassment

The weight of academic misconduct in German politics

Academic misconduct has become a sensitive political issue in Germany, the European Union country with the highest percentage of members of parliament that have a doctorate, at 17%

New wave of hijacked journals

Cloned journal websites continue to deceive unsuspecting authors, leading researchers to offer tips on how to identify fakes

The harvestman with eight canes

Of all the harvestman species found in Brazil, Giupponia Chagasi is the best adapted to living in caves—a trait known as troglomorphism

No census

High speed

Brazilian scientist sets world record during fiber optic connection studies

Settling accounts

Newly qualified accountants are abandoning tradition to become business decision-makers

The shadow of the white plague

Tuberculosis persists, even 100 years after its vaccine was invented

In theory and in practice

An enthusiast of empirical research, Leôncio Martins Rodrigues helped to pioneer social-science studies in Brazil

Learning at the turn of the century

Research examines enrollment and attendance rates to measure Brazil’s progress in education

The visible and the invisible

Despite attempts to erase the iconography of slavery, it has left its mark on both the people and the land

Health under construction

Researchers propose a collaborative model to help prevent workplace accidents

Epileptic seizure warning

São Paulo startup develops wearable device designed to identify seizures half an hour before they occur

Start, fall down, get up, start over

This describes the lives of entrepreneurs facing continuous unforeseen events on the road to success

Less forest, more agriculture

South America loses natural vegetation while livestock and crops gain ground over the last three and a half decades

The muon enigma

Two recent experiments reveal anomalous behavior in these mysterious particles that, if confirmed, could lead to a revision of the dominant theory of matter

The first bonding

Instructional home visits by nurses help teen mothers bond with their babies and contribute to child development

Weakened legislation

Brazil dismantling environmental protection structures during the pandemic

COVID-19, a battle fought by women

Network of female researchers looks for solutions to the challenges faced by women during the pandemic and seeks to influence public policy

Broad and equitable research access

CAPES’s Portal de Periódicos has connected Brazilian researchers to state-of-the-art research in their fields, but is now faced with uncertainties

A compass for science

CAPES and CNPq have each played a central role in building the research ecosystem in Brazil

The American strategy

The United States plans to invest heavily in STI to accelerate its economic recovery and respond to China's threat to its technological leadership

Science on the ropes

Successive budget cuts have eroded Brazil’s capacity to fund research

Linamara Rizzo Battistella: In defense of movement

The physician who helped establish Brazil's policy on the rights of people with disabilities now fights to rehabilitate Covid-19 patients

Limited use

ANVISA authorizes the use of three COVID-19 drugs, but they are expensive and designed only for specific situations

Severe illness in children

A rare syndrome linked to the novel coronavirus causes lesions in multiple organs

Focus on the genome

Brazil is still behind in monitoring Sars-CoV-2 genetics, but an injection of funding for research networks and the acquisition of materials could improve the situation

Risk of death is higher among the poor in Chile

People under 40 living in poorer municipalities in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile, are 3.1 times more likely to die from complications associated with COVID-19 than those who live in more affluent regions

Lasting consequences

People who survive SARS-CoV-2, even those not hospitalized, can suffer the effects of the infection for months after the most intense symptoms subside

The virus and the loss of smell

The loss of smell that affects up to two-thirds of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 is a consequence of both the direct action of the virus and the inflammation it triggers in the olfactory system, according to a team of researchers