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Paleontology

The dinosaur with cancer

An herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago in what is now the province of Alberta in western Canada had highly aggressive bone cancer in its right hind leg

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Archaeology

Inca offerings in Lake Titicaca

A stone box made of volcanic rock found at the bottom of Lake Titicaca is helping archaeologists to better understand the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Incan Empire

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Biodiversity

Two species of mata-mata

New analyses have revealed that there are at least two species of mata-mata

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Technology

A drone that counts trees

Researchers from Brazil and the USA have developed a drone capable of flying autonomously through a forest and mapping the trees

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Genetics

Academic genealogy

A website is helping researchers in the field to identify their academic lineage

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Chemistry

Impurities in psychedelics

Researchers analyzed drugs seized in Santa Catarina between 2011 and 2017 and found a change in the composition of blotters

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Health

Low vitamin D levels

In Brazil, about 875,000 people aged over 50 are deficient in vitamin D

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Public Policies

Bill 529 and state foundations

The FAPESP board of trustees recently analyzed Bill 529, submitted by the São Paulo state government to the Brazilian legislative assembly

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Environment

Microplastics in the heart of the jungle

Researchers found microplastics in the sediment of the Negro, Solimões, and Amazonas rivers

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Data

Members of faculty at universities in São Paulo

Qualification levels rise in the private system while proportion working full-time remains stable

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Good practices

The most common types of misconduct

A professor of criminology at the University of Arizonainterviewed 613 researchers and asked them which types of scientific misconduct they believe occur most frequently in academia

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Good practices

Punishment for administrative misconduct

A mathematician at the Georgia Tech sentenced to two months of house arrest for misrepresenting information in research reports submitted to the NSF in relation to a US$240,000 grant.

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Good practices

The threat of predatory journals in the midst of a pandemic

Despite being rare, articles on COVID-19 published in fraudulent journals serve as a warning

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Editorial

An all-inclusive illness

When the first reports emerged of a new disease in China at the turn of the year, it was described as a “pneumonia of unknown cause.” A few months later, with 25 million cases and 900,000 deaths worldwide, COVID-19 is known to be a more complex and widespread disease than previously thought. Immunologist Anthony Fauci,... View Article

Photolab

Fluorescence in motion

When added to viscous alcohol using a pipette, aminoquinoline slowly rises due to differences in density between the two substances, and as they mix, a fluorescent glow is emitted, visible in black light

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COVID-19

Research during quarantine

Fernando Carvall“An opportunity to rethink the way we live” The crisis has changed how remote intellectual work is viewed. We had computers, but no physical environment or training for this kind of activity. Other people would constantly interrupt you, believing you were not doing real work. This is not the case for me. I have... View Article

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Careers

Environmental chemistry

Researcher from São Paulo wins international award for studies on ecological interactions

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Careers

Breath work

Respiratory physiotherapy training goes beyond undergraduate level, with increasing opportunities for work in hospitals

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Retrospect

War on the plague

Doctors and public authorities acted quickly against a bubonic plague outbreak in Santos in 1899

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Archival science

Not to be forgotten

After 16 years cataloging collections and tracking down missing documentary heritage, Brazil’s national committee for the Memory of the World program was suspended in 2019

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Public Policy

Opening faucets

Lack of basic sanitation in Brazil damages public health and the economy

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Genomics

Disease-immune orange trees

New cultivars developed at the Campinas Agronomic Institute using tangerine genes show resistance to citrus variegated chlorosis

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Biotechnology

Biotech mining

Use of bacteria for processing ore from gold deposit in Mato Grosso could reduce environmental risk and costs of operation

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Algorithms

Artificial intelligence to help the heart

New computer software could improve the speed and efficiency of heart-disease diagnosis and treatment

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Biology

A dose of Darwin in taxonomy

New method of classifying living organisms favors evolutionary history and abandons the divisions of the Linnaean system

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Paleontology

The oldest scorpion in South America

260-million-year-old arthropod fossil found in sedimentary rocks at the side of the road in the state of Santa Catarina

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Genetics

Like those before

The first native peoples of the Americas had similar physical traits to current indigenous populations: brown eyes, black hair, and dark skin

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Archaeology

30,000 years ago in the Americas

Mexican site suggests settlement of the Americas began 30,000 years ago

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Bibliometrics

Wider reach

Report on scientific journal impact factors shows Brazilian periodicals are improving

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Interview

A builder of startups

Computer scientist Nivio Ziviani, from Minas Gerais, has founded five startups and sold one to Google

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