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Luciana Santos: We need new arrangements

The new minister of the MCTI talks about plans to recover public funding for research and how to combat gender inequality in science

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Cid Bartolomeu de Araújo: The adventures of light

Physicist from Pernambuco explains phenomena that can be used to improve optical fibers, cell phones, new materials, and lasers

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Mercedes Bustamante: Before the water runs out

Biologist from the University of Brasília warns that deforestation in the Cerrado also harms other regions

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Carmino Antonio de Souza: The ways of healthcare

UNICAMP hematologist helps develop a plan to resume production of essential drugs, an imperative created by the COVID-19 pandemic

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Yvonne Primerano Mascarenhas: Thinking never hurt anyone

Mascarenhas, 91, talks about her academic career and her work advocating science and education

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Euclides de Mesquita Neto: The chess game of global science

UNICAMP researcher Euclides Neto discusses challenges ahead as executive secretary of the Global Research Council, an association of more than 60 research-funding agencies on all continents

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Marta Maria Azevedo: In defense of native peoples

Brazilian demographer and anthropologist Marta Azevedo was a pioneer in identifying the phenomenon of population recovery among Brazil's Indigenous peoples

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Maria Victoria de Mesquita Benevides: The right to democracy

Sociologist fosters the creation of the field of education in human rights in Brazil

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Esper Cavalheiro: Doctoral training

UNIFESP neuroscientist heading graduate planning committee discusses proposed changes to advanced degree programs

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Fernando Novais: The spheres of existence

The professor from USP and UNICAMP talks about his career, the place of history in the field of social sciences, and the crisis of the colonial system that led to the Independence of Brazil

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Virgílio Almeida: A thinker of the digital world

Computer scientist warns of the risk that the internet and its digital tools will increase discrimination and social inequality

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Osvaldo Catsumi Imamura: A secure device

The engineer who created the layered security framework for Brazil’s electronic voting machine explains why the system is trustworthy

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Carlos Roberto Ferreira Brandão: Living with ants

Biologist surveyed species in the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest, and the Caatinga, as well as managing museums

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João Adolfo Hansen: A journey through Brazilian literature

Literary specialist brought important collaborations to the study of colonial poetry, without disregarding other periods such as modernism

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Helena Nader: Brazilian science still does not reflect the Brazilian people

UNIFESP biomedical scientist and the first woman to preside over the Brazilian Academy of Sciences talks about the importance of affirmative action and highlights education as a priority

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Margareth Dalcolmo: Pandemic scars

The physician-researcher discusses the difficulties faced by health professionals dealing with Covid-19, the dramatic struggles of patients she attended, and the likelihood of an increase in tuberculosis cases in the coming years

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Sergio Tufik: The sleep observer

A medical researcher who began to study the effects of sleep deprivation nearly 50 years ago eventually created one of the world's most productive sleep research teams

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Luiz Vitor de Souza Filho: High-energy ambassador

A Brazilian physicist from the University of São Paulo's São Carlos campus has been elected to chair the international scientific consortium building the world's largest gamma-ray observatory

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Maria Victoria de Mesquita Benevides: The right to democracy

Sociologist fosters the creation of the field of education in human rights in Brazil

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Karen Strier: Four decades with the muriquis

American anthropologist has contributed to primate conservation in the Atlantic Forest and trained almost 80 Brazilian researchers

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Lex Bouter: Towards more responsible science

A Dutch epidemiologist talks about where the debates on research integrity are headed and his expectations for the next international conference on the topic, in May

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Rodolfo Nogueira: Stunningly real dinosaurs

How a paleoartist combines technical and scientific knowledge to recreate extinct animals with a wealth of detail

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André Tortato Rauen: Research focused on mission

Economist from IPEA suggests bolder investment that tackles society’s greatest challenges in addition to basic science

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Eloisa Bonfá: Fighting for life

As clinical director of the USP Hospital das Clínicas for more than a decade, COVID-19 has put the rheumatologist’s planning skills to the test

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Elisabeth Bik: On the trail of scientific fraud

A microbiologist talks about the challenges of detecting manipulated images in scientific papers, and receiving threats on social media

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Gabriel Cohn: With rationality and justice as his compass

Sociologist reflects on his nearly half-century-long career and the challenges the current political climate pose for the human sciences

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Roberto Santos Junior: The limits of an Amazonian dream

Despite causing major damage, the Trans-Amazonian Highway fostered the formation of small farming communities

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Marilda Sotomayor: A game thinker

Brazilian mathematician who worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists became a leading specialist in the highly applicable theory of matching markets

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Renato Janine Ribeiro: There is no development without science

The new president of SBPC says Brazil lacks an awareness of the influence of research on economic and social prosperity

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Carlos Alfredo Joly: It’s time to focus on biodiversity

Botanist who created the Biota program states that defending the preservation of biological wealth is key to fighting climate change

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