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Physics
Physicist receives Brazil’s highest science and technology award
Vanderlei Bagnato, from the São Carlos Physics Institute (IFSC) at the University of São Paulo, is the 2019 winner of the Almirante Álvaro Alberto Award
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Engineering
Recognition for creators of GPS
Four engineers who created the first Global Positioning System (GPS) have received The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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mathematics
The first woman to win the Abel Prize
American mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize, one of the most important awards in mathematics
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Astronomy
Organization established to build the world’s largest radio telescope
After three and a half years of negotiation, representatives from seven countries came together to sign a treaty establishing the intergovernmental organization that will oversee construction of the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array
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Nanotechnology
Fabric that controls heat and repels insects
Brazilian researchers and businesses are using textile fibers that contain nanometric particles to develop fabrics with special properties
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History
Ancient societies and rare diseases
In several ancient societies, people with deformities and rare diseases appear to have been given social support and special care
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biodiversity
Faster than a cheetah
Instead of waiting for insects to fly into its web, a small spider in the Theridiosomatidae family launches itself like a slingshot to catch the prey
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Public health
The fight against measles
The goal of eliminating the transmission of measles worldwide by 2020 is far from being achieved
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Geography
Boundaries between the Amazon and the Cerrado
In the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso, Pará, Tocantins, and Goiás, some areas classified as Cerrado are, in fact, part of the Amazon
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Environment
Air quality weighs heavy on health in Europe
Nearly 800,000 people in Europe die every year as a result of air pollution
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Biodiversity
Number of large animals continues to fall
The number of large wild animals on the planet is decreasing as a result of various human activities,
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Innovation
2019 Péter Murányi Prize Winners
The Péter Murányi Foundation awarded its top prize for 2019 to the SOS Chuva mobile app
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Opportunity
The death of the Opportunity Mars rover
One of NASA's longest and most successful interplanetary exploration missions ended after nearly 15 years of service
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Medicine
Drug program reduces deaths
A federal program designed to provide greater access to drugs that combat chronic disease has significantly reduced deaths and hospitalizations associated with hypertension and diabetes
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Archaeology
Megamonuments may have originated in France
Archaeologist concluded that the first structures of Stonehenge were created roughly 6,500 years ago in what is now Brittany, northwest France
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Technology
A fabric that keeps you cool in the heat and warm in the cold
A high-tech fabric is capable of altering its structure depending on heat and humidity, thus helping to maintain a stable body temperature
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Geography
The wandering North Pole
The North Magnetic Pole has been moving faster than expected from Canada toward Siberia, Russia, in recent years
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Zoology
Bees capable of adding and subtracting
Apis mellifera bees can learn to recognize quantities
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Geology
Light Brazilian earthquakes
Brazil experiences earthquakes of a low to medium magnitude, similar to those of central-eastern USA and the interior of Australia
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Botany
Rare Cuban flora
The library at Cornell University, USA, has published a scanned copy of a nineteenth-century manuscript on Cuban flora by American botanist Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft on its website
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Urbanism
Controversial airport on sacred Incan land
The recently started construction of an international airport in Chinchero, southeastern Peru, has raised concerns about potential damage to archaeological sites in the region
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Genetics
Monogamy linked to interaction between 24 genes
Researchers found similar gene activity in the monogamous species of different animals
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CNPq
ITA engineer to head the CNPq
Aeronautical engineer João Luiz Filgueiras de Azevedo is the new president of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, the largest federal funding agency in Brazil
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Botanics
The origin of the mango flower’s sweet smell
In the mango and cajuzinho-do-campo flowers, the scent glands are located at the inner base of the petals
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Medicine
Scaffolds aid neuron regeneration
Neuroscientists and nanoengineering experts have developed 3D-printable scaffolds compatible with living tissue that in the future could be used to treat spinal cord injuries
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Environment
Ice loss in Antarctica increases sixfold in 40 years
A new tool has made it possible to more accurately calculate the thickness of the Antarctic ice sheets and the speed at which they are moving
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Archaeology
First exhibition since the fire
On January 17, the Brazilian National Museum opened its first exhibition since the fire that destroyed much of its collection on September 2, 2018
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Astrophysics
The young, ephemeral rings of Saturn
Two recent studies have presented new theories on their origin and probable end of Saturn's rings
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History
Roughly 1.5 million Jews killed in just three months
Between August and October of 1942, at the height of Operation Reinhard, 500,000 Jews per month were taken to concentration camps and killed in occupied Poland
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