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Gender and Science

Ongoing dialogue with feminist theories opens new areas for research across various disciplines

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Biodiversity

The diversity of the Caatinga

The Caatinga is home to a range of flowering plants proportionally more diverse than the Amazon rainforest

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Economy

Undeclared foreign funding

The US Department of Education is investigating Harvard and Yale universities for failing to declare funding received from foreign governments

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Geography

Human activity alters river mouths

Amazon River delta is shrinking by 1 km2 per year because of siltation

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Zoology

What’s for dinner?

The cuttlefish eats less at lunch when its favorite dish is served for dinner

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Biodiversity

Colorful but discreet

If you look very closely through a patch of bromeliads, searching leaf by leaf, you may be lucky enough to find a brightly colored leafhopper

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Fapesp

New member of the FAPESP Board of Trustees

Biomedical scientist Helena Bonciani Nader, from the Federal University of São Paulo, has joined the FAPESP Board of Trustees

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Public health

Keep an eye on your waist

Waist circumference indicates risk of heart and metabolic diseases

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Communication

A platform for sharing Brazilian science

Agência Bori, an online platform designed to help journalists access Brazilian science, began operating on February 12

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Virology

The Zika virus and astrocytes

First isolated in Africa in 1947, the Zika virus has a predilection for brain cells

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Physics

Physicists immobilize glass particle

A research group in Austria cooled the first solid state object—a nanometer fragment of glass a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand

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Genetics

Neanderthal genes in Africa

According to the research, Europeans and Asians have about three times as much Neanderthal DNA as Africans

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Astronomy

A giant, sleeping galaxy

An international group of astronomers has identified a rare galaxy, known only as XMM-2599, which formed very early in the history of the universe

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Zoology

Millennia of migration

Some birds travel almost unbelievable distances, sometimes across continents, in pursuit of warmer climates and food to survive and reproduce

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Data

Engineer salaries for men and women in Brazil1

Average real salary for engineers in Brazil grew between 2006 and 2013 and fell from 2013 to 2018

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Good practices

Predatory journal training

The University Grants Commission has decreed that universities in the country must train all PhD students in the ethics of scientific publication

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Good practices

Support for the publication of unexpected results

€1,000 is offered as a bonus to researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health who publish negative results

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Good practices

Crackdown on fraudulent citations

Publishers and journals attempt to combat fraudulent conduct in the article review process

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Editorial

Women and Science

Modern science and its remarkable advances are closely associated with the ideas and research of men. Although this perception is not entirely accurate, it is also not incorrect. Like all human activity, science is a part of our current social structure, which is undoubtedly based on a male perspective. Londa Schiebinger, a professor of the... View Article

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Photolab

Needle in a haystack

In this collage ultra-diffuse galaxies are shown by the faint white patches in the center of each square

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Careers

Eradicating malaria

Congolese student uses artificial intelligence to fight the disease, which affects more than 210 million people a year

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Careers

Pause for reflection

Popularized in the USA at the end of the nineteenth century, sabbatical leave provides an opportunity for personal growth and can provide professional benefits

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Data

Scientific publications by country: number of authors and number of articles

The 2020 State of US Science and Engineering report, published by the National Science Foundation, shows the number of scientific articles per country from 2000 to 2018

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Good practices

Article retracted by Nobel Prize winner

Frances Arnold, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the evolution of enzymes, announced on Twitter that her group was retracting a scientific article published last year

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Good practices

Guidelines canceled after opioid crisis

The World Health Organization has announced the retraction of two guidelines on the use of opioidsfor pain control

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Good practices

Employees or spies?

Report recommends ways of preventing foreign influence on research in the USA

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Obituary

The machine man

Engineer and physicist Ricardo Rodrigues was the designer of Sirius, the most complex and versatile research instrument ever built in Brazil

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Obituary

An anthropologist of violence

Alba Zaluar, a pioneer in crime and social policy studies, dies at 77

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Retrospect

Cameras in the operating room

Photographer and filmmaker Benedito Duarte has produced around 500 documentaries on medical activities and research in São Paulo

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History

A feast for historians

New studies help to explain how changing eating habits shaped culture and the economy in São Paulo and Recife

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