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Conservation

Ecological strategies seek to restore wildlife populations and reverse extinctions

Rewilding and de-extinction represent a new era in ecosystem restoration

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Data

Higher education level among young adults

Study indicates only 24% of Brazilians between the ages of 25 and 34 have a university degree

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Good practices

Footprints of a fraudulent system

Investigations reveal the role of illegal services, journal editors, and intermediaries in the publication of articles subsequently retracted in PLOS ONE

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Good practices

Firewall for science

Tool capable of identifying scientific journals that use questionable practices

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Good practices

Low impact

Most retracted papers have had an insignificant number of citations, Hungarian study finds

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Indicators

FAPESP annual report 2024 shows post-pandemic recovery by scientific institutions in São Paulo

Investment reached R$1.76 billion via a record number of fellowships and research grants

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Communication

Warnings left by users on social media posts containing misinformation have little effect

A study conducted in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom evaluated data from 3,000 people

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Entrepreneurship

Study indicates that 15% of Brazilian PhD holders own businesses

Survey of doctoral students who graduated in 2021 and 2022 identified a range of profiles, including entrepreneurs, contractors, and others seeking further training to improve existing businesses

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Interview

Maria Paula Curado: Brazilian epidemiologist mapping cancer incidence patterns

The doctor transitioned from surgery to epidemiology and helped establish international guidelines for head and neck cancer diagnosis and treatment

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Metallurgical engineering

Urban mining can reduce environmental impacts of rare-earth mineral production

Research groups are developing methodologies for recycling magnets, batteries, and other materials containing these chemical elements

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Mining engineering

Brazil invests in research to master the production cycle of rare-earth minerals and supermagnets

Minerals at the center of global geopolitical disputes are considered essential for the energy transition

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Ecology

Bird feathers contain traces of pesticides

Bird feather flaws caused by pesticides

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Astrophysics

Details of a star’s death

Astronomers discover how a star dies

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Environment

AI to recover climate data

Artificial intelligence helps recover climate records beyond the reach of large-scale analyses

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Climatology

Heat spoils the mood

Rising temperatures could reduce global well-being by the end of the century

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Zoology

Jaguar mates with black jaguar

Jaguars place importance on sounds and smells when mating

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Archaeology

A human skull with features of two species

140,000-year-old child’s skull has traits of both modern humans and Neanderthals

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Digital world

Protecting yourself against cyber attacks

Making backups is a key measure against virus attacks

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Political science

Prevention is better than the cure in elections

In elections, it is better to warn about fake news beforehand than to try to correct it afterward

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Awards

Winners of the Conrado Wessel Award

Biologist Mercedes Bustamante and writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva win 2025 FCW Prize

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Epidemiology

Mosquitoes spreading diseases across Europe

Warming climate helps mosquitoes spread infectious diseases across Europe

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Virology

FDA suspends Chikungunya vaccine approved in Brazil

Ixchiq Chikungunya vaccine suspended after reports of serious side effects

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Public health

Heart failure causing fewer hospitalizations

Hospitalizations for heart failure have decreased, but in-hospital deaths have increased

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Physics

Fully Japanese quantum computer

Japan’s first superconducting quantum computer begins operating

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Environment

Predicting landslides

Data on climate, soil, and topography help predict landslides

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Letter from the editor | 356

Not earth and not rare, but nonetheless important

Smartphones, wind turbines, electric vehicles, cloud computing. We live in an age of digital technologies powered by complex devices. Materials with specific functional properties are needed to produce them, obtained from increasingly diverse natural resources. Among these raw materials is a particular group of chemical elements known as rare earths. The name is inaccurate. The... View Article

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Photolab

Collective Regeneration

Marine organism can regenerate from a single fragment

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Research itineraries

The USP archaeology professor began his career as an electrician

Vagner Carvalheiro Porto, who was also a school teacher, is now an expert in the archaeology of the Roman Empire

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Retrospect

David Bohm, a rebellious physicist

Persecuted in the US, he lived in Brazil for four years and proposed new concepts to explain the behavior of atomic particles

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Obituary

Immunologist Victor Nussenzweig was a pioneer in malaria vaccine research

With his wife Ruth, who was also a researcher, he developed the basis for immunization against the parasite that causes the disease

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