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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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40th José Reis Award

Pesquisa FAPESP journalist wins José Reis award

Carlos Henrique Fioravanti has been named winner of the most important recognition afforded to professionals reporting on science and technology in Brazil

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SpaceX

A historic flight

On May 31, American astronauts arrived at the International Space Station for a three-month mission

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technology

Companies and researchers against racism

Amid the anti-racism demonstrations that took place in June after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, USA, multinational tech company IBM decided to suspend development of all facial recognition systems

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Astronomy

A moon on the move

Titan, the largest of Saturn's 82 moons, is moving away from the planet almost 100 times faster than previously estimated

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Archaeology

Archaeology without excavation

Archaeologists have mapped an entire Ancient Roman city without carrying out a single excavation

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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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Cover

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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Cover

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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