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Geology

A colossal eruption

One of the largest volcanic eruptions to have left a record on Earth occurred 8.7 million years ago

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Data

FAPESP funds COVID-19 research projects

Number of projects at each institution (as of 06/18/2020)

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Good practices

List of retractions grows

It has been 10 years since German anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt was involved in one of the largest scientific misconduct scandals in history. Even today, the scandal continues

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Good practices

Harvard puts anthropologist on leave amid allegations of sexual harassment

Gary Urton has been put on paid leave while the institution investigates allegations of sexual harassment filed by former students

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Good practices

Based on unreliable information

How a suspicious big-data company was able to provide data for COVID-19 articles published in two major scientific journals

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Letter from the Editor | 293

The challenge of immunization

Less than four months after China notified the WHO that it had identified a cluster of pneumonia cases “of unknown cause,” potential vaccines for the novel coronavirus had already begun human testing. One of the first companies to start phase 1 clinical trials (in humans) was Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech, with which the Butantan... View Article

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Photolab

Mutilated courtship

Scorpions of the genus Ananteris can shed their stinger when attacked

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COVID-19

Research during the quarantine

Fernando Carvall“I keep nudging my students and trying to send a positive message” I head a laboratory at UFRJ’s Institute of Medical Biochemistry where we research the nervous system. There are 28 of us: 5 postdoctoral fellows, 6 PhD students, 8 master’s students, 6 undergraduates, and the technical staff. It was a shock when UFRJ... View Article

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Cover

Calculating in the dark

Creativity helps scientists predict the economic impacts of an unprecedented crisis

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Covid-19

Restoring trust

In the midst of the pandemic a new study measures high rates of confidence in science

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Interview

Sergio Machado Rezende: Together against COVID-19

The physicist is one of the coordinators of the Scientific Committee for the Fight against Coronavirus in the Northeast, which advises the region's governors

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Predicting the course of epidemics

Mathematical modeling of infectious disease, a science perfected over the last 250 years, is helping guide the COVID-19 response through uncertainties

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The child enigma

Researchers are trying to unravel why so few children contract COVID-19 and why some of those who do develop a severe inflammation of the blood vessels

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Covid-19

The size of the pandemic

Lag times in case reporting can hurt government efforts to contain spread of COVID-19

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Careers

The fight against suffering

Brazilian researcher wins international award for his studies on chronic pain

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Careers

Connected health

Telemedicine requires knowledge beyond simply searching the internet

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Retrospect

At the atom’s core

Born 100 years ago this year, theoretical physicist Jayme Tiomno studied particle interactions in the atom’s nucleus

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Obituary

A dialectical interpreter

Based in France, Ruy Fausto was considered one of the most important Brazilian theorists of Marxism

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Teaching

Beyond the classroom

School and university closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic spark debate on distance learning

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Biomedical engineering

Green microbattery

Researchers from USP and Harvard develop a vegetable gelatin prototype for medical applications

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Oil and gas engineering

Caverns for storing gases

New technology will allow deep-sea storage of the carbon dioxide and methane associated with oil extraction in pre-salt petroleum fields

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Environment

Biomes under attack

97% of the 12,000 square kilometers of land deforested in Brazil last year was in the Amazon and the Cerrado

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Inequality

The diversity-innovation paradox

Women and ethnic minorities excel at proposing new ideas, but earn little recognition, according to an analysis of 1.2 million PhD theses

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GENDER

A handbook for guerrilla warfare against inequality

A United States report describes successful initiatives to increase the contribution of women in scientific careers

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INTERVIEW

Silviano Santiago: The cosmopolitan literary

The critic, novelist, and poet pioneered transdisciplinary and postcolonial analyses of Brazilian literature

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Cover

Brazil begins testing

To better understand the spreading pandemic, research initiatives aim to increase the scale of COVID-19 diagnoses throughout the country

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Natural guests

Abundant viruses contribute to the genetic diversity of life on Earth and may have emerged four times throughout the planet's history

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The reality of data

Mapping and systematizing COVID-19 data is crucial to controlling the disease in Brazil

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Covid-19

Traditional Chinese medicine to treat COVID-19

China's government and state media are encouraging the use of traditional medicines and remedies to treat COVID-19, despite the lack of scientific support

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COVID-19

Novel coronavirus can damage the retina

Ophthalmologists at the Federal University of São Paulo suspect that Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can damage the retina

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