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Néstor García Canclini: An anthropologist of the contemporary

A Brazilian intellectual produces pioneering analyses of the paradoxes of Latin American modernity

Warning from the deep

Monitoring the novel coronavirus in sewage systems improves epidemiological surveillance in Brazilian cities

Vaccines in the real world

CoronaVac and Covishield effectiveness tested in Serrana and Botucatu, two towns in the state of São Paulo

The awakening of a dormant virus

Study suggests that SARS-CoV-2 activates dormant virus in the human genome

Hybrid coronavirus antibodies

A promising strategy for preventing and treating the novel coronavirus has been successfully tested in mice by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA

Changes in alcohol consumption

Self isolation and social distancing seem to be changing the way alcohol is consumed in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a fall in the number of people drinking

Birth rates fall in six state capitals

The number of new births has dropped further in six Brazilian capitals during the pandemic

Deaths exacerbate income losses

Death of 430,000 people from COVID-19 until May could cost the economy R$10.9 billion per month

Half of the world’s rivers dry up each year

More than half of the world's rivers and streams have a stretch that dries up for at least one day each year

The most complete human genome

On May 27, the T2T consortium, an international collaboration involving 30 research institutions, published an article titled “The complete sequence of a human genome” on bioRxiv

The crows and the empty set

With training, carrion crow were able to understand the empty set as a null numerical quantity close to one

The NIH’s plan to combat racism

Francis Collins, director of the NIH introduced UNITE, a program launched to combat structural racism and increase diversity, equity, and inclusion

The near extinction of sharks

Ocean sediment fossil records suggest that today's sharks are descended from the few survivors of a mass extinction that wiped out nearly all the shark species that lived in the early Miocene Epoch

Back to life after 24,000 years

Rotifers of the Bdelloidea class are multicellular invertebrate organisms so small that they are usually only seen under a microscope

Earth-controlled temperature

A technology developed at the São Carlos School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo uses heat exchange between the subsoil and the foundation piles to acclimatize a building's interior

The oldest spiral galaxy

Astrophysicists have identified the oldest spiral galaxy ever observed

A giant water and food vacuum

African elephants are able to fill their nostrils with 3.7 liters of water in just 1.5 seconds

Public R&D funding

Government expenditure on R&D in relation to GDP

Academy expels researchers for sexual harassment

The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has expelled researchers accused of sexual harassment

The weight of academic misconduct in German politics

Academic misconduct has become a sensitive political issue in Germany, the European Union country with the highest percentage of members of parliament that have a doctorate, at 17%

New wave of hijacked journals

Cloned journal websites continue to deceive unsuspecting authors, leading researchers to offer tips on how to identify fakes

The harvestman with eight canes

Of all the harvestman species found in Brazil, Giupponia Chagasi is the best adapted to living in caves—a trait known as troglomorphism

No census

High speed

Brazilian scientist sets world record during fiber optic connection studies

Settling accounts

Newly qualified accountants are abandoning tradition to become business decision-makers

The shadow of the white plague

Tuberculosis persists, even 100 years after its vaccine was invented

In theory and in practice

An enthusiast of empirical research, Leôncio Martins Rodrigues helped to pioneer social-science studies in Brazil

Learning at the turn of the century

Research examines enrollment and attendance rates to measure Brazil’s progress in education

The visible and the invisible

Despite attempts to erase the iconography of slavery, it has left its mark on both the people and the land

Health under construction

Researchers propose a collaborative model to help prevent workplace accidents