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Archaeology
78,000-year-old human burial
The oldest known burial by modern humans in Africa took place about 78,000 years ago
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Education
More inclusive universities
Access to university education has expanded and is less socially unbalanced in Brazil
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Education
New UNIFESP dean sworn in
On May 7, obstetrician Nelson Sass and sociologist Raiane Patrícia Severino Assumpção officially took over as dean and vice dean of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) for 2021–2025
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Funding
Direct funding to Africa
In April, African health experts published an open letter in the journal Nature Medicine, addressed to international funders of studies on health problems in Africa
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Geology
In the depths of a geyser
For the first time, geoscientists from the University of Utah and Yellowstone National Park, USA, have mapped the interior of the world's most powerful geyser
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Tecnology
Writing with the mind
A brain-to-computer interface has allowed a 65-year-old man paralyzed from the neck down to quickly write text on a computer screen by imagining himself writing the letters by hand
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Engineering
Chinese rover on Mars
Without a fanfare, China’s National Space Administration successfully landed its first rover on Mars
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Zoology
A very informative gesture
Mountain gorillas may be communicating with other members of their troop when they rise up on their hind legs and beat their chests with their hands to produce a loud, hollow sound
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History
Population decline in pre-colonial Amazonia
In response to environmental changes, epidemics, or wars, the populational decline of the Amazon region may have started 300 to 600 years before contact with European settlers
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COVID-19
New clues about blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine
A step has been taken towards explaining why the vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca can very rarely lead to the formation of blood clots
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COVID-19
The months-long consequences of COVID-19
The long-term effects of COVID-19 are becoming clearer
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COVID-19
The importance of the cellular response against the coronavirus
Fighting a SARS-CoV-2 infection is not solely the responsibility of antibodies, the proteins that adhere to the virus’s surface to prevent it from entering cells or mark it for destruction
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COVID-19
Two vaccines prevent infection by Sars-CoV-2
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are 80% effective at preventing SARS-Cov-2 infections after the first dose and 90% after the second
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COVID-19
Superior immunity
Studies of blood and tissue samples taken before the COVID-19 pandemic may help explain why the disease is more common and more severe in adults than in children
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Ingenuity
Successful flight on mars
NASA's robotic helicopter Ingenuity became the first aircraft designed on Earth to make a controlled and self-propelled flight on another planet
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paleontology
The pterosaur of the trees
A 160-million-year-old fossil discovered in Liaoning, northeast China, belongs to a new species of pterosaur, which has been generating curiosity
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Energy
Energy generated by vibration
Spanish startup Vortex Bladeless plans to start testing its innovative technique of generating wind energy from the vibrations of a vertical carbon fiber rod later this year
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Public health
Tuberculosis in prisons
Tuberculosis cases in the Latin American prison population increased by 269% between 2011 and 2017
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Education
São Paulo State Governor appoints new dean of UNICAMP
Food engineer Antonio José de Almeida Meirelles, known as Tom Zé, has been appointed dean of the University of Campinas
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Physics
A quantum computer for private use
The Cleveland Clinic in the USA will be IBM's first private customer to own a quantum computer
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Funding
More money for science in the USA
US President Joe Biden presented the country’s 2022 budget in April
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Physics
Shedding light on antimatter
For the first time, researchers have managed to cool antimatter atoms using lasers
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Archaeology
3,000-year-old city in the Valley of the Kings
In early April, archaeologists and the Egyptian government announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old city, the largest ever unearthed in ancient Egypt
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COVID-19
Death of a man; extinction of an ethnic group
Aruká Juma, the last person to speak the language of the Juma people, died of COVID-19 on February
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COVID-19
A mask that inactivates the virus
Hospital Regional da Asa Norte in Brasília began clinical trials of a mask that contains a biocompatible compound capable of inactivating the novel coronavirus
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COVID-19
High infant mortality in Sergipe
Despite having enough beds available in intensive care units (ICU) for adults, Sergipe has a 41% shortfall in pediatric beds
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COVID-19
Understand the long-term effects
The US NIH announced a plan to invest US$1.15 billion over the next four years into research on the long-term effects of COVID-19
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COVID-19
Outbreak on ship confirms the main route of contagion
The results of computer simulations of how COVID-19 spread on the Australian cruise ship Princess Diamond have finally been published in a scientific journal.
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Archaeology
A powerful fertilizer
Archaeological records of plants and grains suggest that agriculture sustained large human settlements in northern Chile for many centuries was established in 1438
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