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Careers

The rise of the digital manager

Customer engagement via social media has increased the demand for digital specialists

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Obituary

Skillful surgeon, resourceful inventor

Domingo Braile developed medical devices and introduced heart surgery in small-town São Paulo

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Obituary

A thinker of development

Wilson Cano was one of the founders of the UNICAMP Institute of Economics and a scholar of industrialization in Brazil

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History

Inked

From the margins of society to iconic pop culture; study reconstructs the history of tattooing in Brazil

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Economics

Tools for an equitable society

Economists study how social investment and progressive taxation combat different types of inequality, and how they can be integrated

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Biotechnology

Clothes made of bacteria

Biofabrics made from microbes are crawling their way into the fashion industry

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Materials engineering

Homegrown graphene

Graphene production facilities in Brazil’s Southeast and South place the country among the global producers of the high-tech material

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Atmospheric sciences 

Pizza soot

Pizzerias in São Paulo produce the equivalent of 9% of the fine particulate matter emitted by vehicles in the city’s Metropolitan Region

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Astronomy

Windows on the Milky Way

Regions of space with less gas and dust allow astronomers to observe stars on the other side of the galaxy

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Environment

Fire and biodiversity

Experiment suggests that small, controlled fires increase the number of plant species in the Cerrado without decreasing the number of animals

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Interview

Carlos Guerra Schrago: The theory and practice of evolution

The discipline that seeks to reconstruct the histories of species is itself evolving, according to UFRJ biologist

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Statistics

Stunted by recession

IBGE’s latest PINTEC survey reveals slowing innovation momentum among Brazilian firms between 2015 and 2017

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Interview

Luiz Eugênio Mello: Even something good has room for improvement

The new scientific director of FAPESP on his plans and the challenges for research as a result of the pandemic

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Coronavirus

Research during the quarantine

“I put my epidemiologist’s hat back on” Three years ago, I became dean of the Federal University of Pelotas and pressed the pause button on my scientific life in order to dedicate myself 100% to leading the university. Until the new coronavirus pandemic began, that is. I was wearing my dean’s hat, but I couldn’t... View Article

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Historical vulnerability

Chronic health problems and poor connections with public authorities make combating the SARS-CoV-2 virus a challenge for indigenous peoples

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Interview

Michel Nussenzweig: Antibody hunter

Brazilian-born immunologist searches the plasma of patients who have survived COVID-19 for proteins capable of fighting the novel coronavirus

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Retrospect

In the palm of the hand

A São Paulo physician developed a portable respirator in the 1950s

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Vital ventilators

Brazil’s hospitals scramble to buy ventilators for ICUs, while a FAPESP-supported firm closes a deal to supply 6,500 units to the Brazilian Ministry of Health

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Progress toward dengue vaccine

A formulation developed by the Butantan Institute has shown protective effects in the second phase of testing

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The antivirus arsenal

The search for an effective treatment for COVID-19 includes testing drugs already used against other diseases and even plasma

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A frightening disease

Reports suggest the novel coronavirus may indirectly affect other organs as well as the lungs

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Science fights back

In just four months, 8,000 scientific articles have been published on Covid-19, more than 70 drugs tested against SARS-CoV-2, and the first vaccines trialed on humans

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Public health

Banning travel alone will not stop the pandemic

Public health actions, such as early testing, washing hands, social distancing, and self-isolation are likely to be more effective in reducing the transmission rate of the SARS-CoV-2 virus than simply reducing national and international travel

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Pharmacology

Monkeys are the best animal model

Monkeys appear to be the best animals for testing SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and drugs

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Covid-19

Thermal camera identifies fever from a distance

Researchers developed a drone equipped with a thermal camera capable of measuring a person’s temperature from a distance

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Covid-19

The ideal fabric for homemade masks

A mixture of cotton and natural silk or chiffon is the best combination for making homemade masks capable of blocking the SARS-CoV-2 virus

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Coronavirus

Virus on the attack

Transmission electron microscope images provide a detailed look at how SARS-CoV-2 attacks, infects, and replicates in a culture of Vero cells

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Chemistry

Paper and sponge made from pollen

Researchers transformed grains of sunflower pollen into a microgel with controllable properties and synthesized products with consistencies of gel, paper, and sponge

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Archaeology

The new dimensions of Ur

Ur may have occupied an area up to eight times greater than previously estimated by archaeologists in the 1980s

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Paleontology

A giant tortoise

The largest freshwater turtle that ever existed, possibly the largest of all turtles, lived between 13.8 million and 5.3 million years ago in South America, inhabiting a larger area than previously thought

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