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Optics
Evidence that Da Vinci had strabismus
The Mona Lisa painter had strabismus and may have known how to use it to his advantage
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Economy
China closing in on the USA
US$254 billion was the approximate value invested in R&D activities by China in 2017
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Paleontology
The gregarious habits of an herbivorous reptile
Researchers from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul found an assemblage of fossils from at least six different Dinodontosaurus individuals
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Epidemiology
Potential sylvatic cycle of Zika in Brazil
Brazilian researchers have identified the Zika virus in the carcasses of monkeys found in the interior of São Paulo State and in Minas Gerais
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Communication
Online tool tries to identify fake news
Researchers are developing a tool for verifying whether articles shared on the internet or through instant messaging apps are real or fake
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Archaeology
The origin of chocolate and camouflaged fungus
Artifacts that belonged to native Americans between 5,300 and 2,100 years ago hold the earliest evidence of the domestication and use of cacao
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Medicine
Homage to Henrietta Lacks and her cells
Johns Hopkins University, USA, is to name a new ethics research building in honor of Henrietta Lacks
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Environment
Hope for the Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest covers 28% of the area it occupied before European colonization
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Nobel Prize 2018 | Economics
Innovation, climate, and sustainable development
American researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their contributions to integrating innovation and climate change policies into the analysis of long-term economic growth
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Nobel Prize 2018 | Peace
Combating sexual violence as a weapon of war
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Iraqi activist Nadia Murad and Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege
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Nobel Prize 2018 | Chemistry
Directed protein evolution
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared by three researchers who controlled genetic changes and selective processes in a laboratory
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Nobel Prize 2018 | Physics
More powerful lasers and optical tweezers
In physics, Nobel acknowledged the work of two researchers who created a way of producing more powerful laser sources, and a third scientist who expanded their use to investigate phenomena on the scale of cells and atomic particles
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Nobel Prize 2018 | Medicine
Immunotherapy for fighting cancer
Two immunologists shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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illegal capture
DNA helps track ivory traffickers
Genetic studies are helping to shape government policies against international ivory trafficking in the US and Africa
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open-access
Twenty years since it first launched, SciELO announces preprints platform
SciELO announced plans to create a preprints repository in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project
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FAPESP Board of Trustees
Marco Antonio Zago is new FAPESP president
Marco Antonio Zago took over as president of FAPESP on the morning of October 5
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Physics
Higgs, a well-behaved boson
Physicists have been investigating how the Higgs boson particle interacts with others
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History
405-year-old letter suggests Galileo toned down his beliefs
A letter found at the Royal Society in London suggests that Galileo Galilei softened his stance against the ecclesiastical doctrine that the Sun orbited Earth to avoid arrest by the Roman Inquisition
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Physics
Vibrations created by light in mirrors
An international group of researchers accurately isolated and measured the vibrations generated when a beam of light touches the surface of a mirror and is reflected back
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Environment
Mangroves store more carbon than the rainforest
In the Amazon, every hectare of mangrove contains twice as much carbon as the same area of inland forest
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Archaeology
Neanderthal mother, Denisovan father
A 13-year-old girl who lived 90,000 years ago in what is now southwestern Siberia is the first described case of a direct descendant of two distinct archaic human groups
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Geology
Continuous expansion of the Amazon River
The Amazon River is still expanding as it captures water from the Orinoco River, which flows through Colombia and Venezuela
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Arts
The evolution of painting according to physics
A computer algorithm has provided a numerical quantification of the changing visual characteristics in paintings over the last thousand years
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UV radiation
When visiting the Atacama Desert, use sunscreen
Ultraviolet radiation in the Atacama Desert is higher than anywhere else on Earth
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Genetics
The quest for a universal flu vaccine
Sections of DNA are equal across all strains of the virus, making them good candidates for a potential vaccine against all varieties of influenza
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Economy
US investment in research grows in 2017
In 2017, the United States government invested US$118.3 billion in research and development
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Archaeology
The oldest library in Germany
Construction works on a church community center have revealed the ruins of a Roman library in the city of Cologne, Germany
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the Meghalayan age
A new chapter in Earth’s history
The proposal approved by the IUGS divides the Holocene into three ages: the Greenlandian, Northgrippian, and Meghalayan
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Biodiversity
The Geoffroy’s cat and its behavior
Biologists monitored a population of Geoffroy's cats (Leopardus geoffroyi) in the Caverá mountains
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