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Memory

A working-class intellectual

Born 100 years ago, sociologist Florestan Fernandes developed a new way of looking at Brazil

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Obituary

A scholar of economic policies

The career of Carlos Lessa, a professor at UFRJ and former president of BNDES, merged academic discipline with politics

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Obituary

The aggregator of knowledge and people

Physicist Roberto Salmeron was a professor at École Polytechnique and one of the founders of UnB

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Architecture & urban planning

Digitizing monuments

Although expensive, laser scanning technology can be a valuable tool for documenting and preserving historical and cultural heritage

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Telecommunications

Rural wireless

Technology developed by INATEL broadens options for private 4G networks in remote areas

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Physics

How to create a skyrmion

Microscopic metal structures produced and controlled by short-lived magnetic pulses could be used to store data

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Neuroscience

Early deficit

People with Huntington's disease tend to produce fewer neurons since birth

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Ecology

Protecting the turtles

Combined use of sound recordings, aerial images, and environmental data improves monitoring of endangered Amazon species

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Environment

The return of deforestation

Official INPE figure says 10,129 km2 of the Amazon were deforested in 2019, the most since 2008

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INTERVIEW

Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão: The physicist who would not bend

Almost a year after being dismissed, the former director of INPE continues to warn that deforestation is out of control in the Amazon

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Scientometrics

Trends in scientific collaboration

A recent study brings together indicators that enable a view of various profiles of research cooperation in 41 countries

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Cover

Amplified violence

Rates of violence against women in Brazil increase during the pandemic

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Cover

A difficult return

Brazil seeks health and education parameters for planning the resumption of in-person classes in its school systems

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Cover

The challenge of calculating R

Poor data makes the effective reproduction rate difficult to track and is hampering the pandemic response

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Difficult exit

Quarantine relaxation strategies differ around the country

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Each nation’s effort

Brazil’s government unfreezes funding for COVID-19 research, but will spend far less than developed countries

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Calling all scientists

Researchers in São Paulo mobilize against the pandemic as FAPESP awards funding to 210 related projects

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Science takes on the virus

Federal call for proposals attracts 2,200 applications for research grants to study COVID-19

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INTERVIEW

Cristiana Toscano: An unprecedented global effort

According to the only Brazilian member of a WHO vaccine committee, we are experiencing unprecedented worldwide collaboration to develop a vaccine in record time

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COVER

Standing alone

Brazilian vaccine projects race to begin clinical trials next year

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COVER

Saving time

Brazilian research centers negotiate deals to import vaccine production technology

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Covid-19

Looking for shortcuts

International teams use eight different techniques to create 150 COVID-19 vaccine candidates in six months

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COVID-19

Risk of increase in child labor

The reduced income and increased economic insecurity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a rise in child labor rates in Latin America and the Caribbean

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COVID-19

A SARS-CoV-2-proof fabric

Researchers from São Paulo–based company Nanox have developed a fabric containing silver nanoparticles that can inactivate the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2

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COVID-19

Platform gathers data on Brazilians with COVID-19

The COVID-19 Data Sharing/BR platform is a repository of clinical, laboratory and demographic data on people diagnosed with the infection in the country

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COVID-19

More than 100 different strains of the novel coronavirus identified in Brazil

More than 100 strains of SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Brazil, but only three spread across the country

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Pandemic

3.1 million lives saved in Europe

The strict social distancing and lockdown measures implemented in 11 European countries before May 4 may have prevented 3.1 million COVID-19 deaths

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Biodiversity

At risk of disappearing

Hundreds of species of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals are at risk of disappearing in the next two decades as a result of environmental degradation caused by humans

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Record

In space and the deep sea

American geologist, oceanographer and former astronaut Kathy Sullivan, 68, is the first person to walk in space and to dive to the deepest point of the ocean

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Innovation

From cocoons to bones

A team has developed a potentially simpler, faster, and cheaper strategy for producing a biocompatible material that can be used as a scaffold for repairing long bones

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