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Mutilated courtship
Scorpions of the genus Ananteris can shed their stinger when attacked
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Graphene-coated microspheres
Light emitted by an optical fiber travels through the center of a glass microsphere and interacts with the graphene that coats its surface
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Working overtime to defeat Covid-19
Researcher create face shields using a 3D printer
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Plant-stem lace
If you take a thin slice of a young stem of Acleisanthes chenopodioides and look at it under a microscope, this is what you will see
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Needle in a haystack
In this collage ultra-diffuse galaxies are shown by the faint white patches in the center of each square
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A house in the trees
In the Amazon, bats of the Mesophylla genus sometimes sleep under large tree leaves
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Technological skin
Shark's skin feels smooth if you run your hand from head to tail, but rough in reverse
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Biological engineering
Lab-made vascular cells actively produce a coagulation factor
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Until archaeology do us part
After death, a man and woman in Lapa do Santo, Minas Gerais State, remained together for more than 8,000 years
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A landscape in an egg
A group led by paleontologist Sérgio Alex Azevedo, from the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, was able to identify the fossil by analyzing its microstructure
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Inside the vines
The dyed stem cross-sections in the images show the stiffer and the more flexible parts of forest vines
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Laboratory brain
Biologist Caroline Brandão Teles has been studying the relationship between schizophrenia and defects in neural cells known as oligodendrocytes—which she has been attempting to create from stem cells
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The aesthetics of imperfection
A large electric voltage bias is used to spin ultrafine nanometric fibers into membranes that can filter water
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Niobium in bloom
"Flowers" bloom inside a device that works like a pressure cooker at a University of São Paulo Chemistry Institute laboratory
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Medicinal necklaces
Crnkovic studied microalgae in fresh water as part of her PhD research, which involved bioprospecting for compounds that could help fight cancer
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Rare white cougar captured on camera
Hidden cameras in the Serra dos Órgãos National Park in Rio de Janeiro captured rare photographs of a cougar with a white coat—known to biologists as leucism
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Microscopic giants
In samples collected off the coast of Rio de Janeiro and from saline lakes in the Pantanal, virologist identified giant viruses with the longest tails ever recorded
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A perfect fit
Frogs are very particular when choosing the flowers in which they will spend their whole lives
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Splendor at the highest heights
High in the Itatiaia mountains in Rio de Janeiro, more than 2,000 meters above sea level, the brightly colored flowers of the Buddleja speciosissima demand attention
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Magnetic circles
LED light strips, a cylindrical magnet, and a thin film of ferrofluid is the recipe for the diffraction effect in which the colored lights form circles
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Pre-Columbian Culture
Fragments of ceramic figures indicate that at the time there was a cultural connection between peoples across South America
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A different type of DNA
Some parts of the DNA may actually be formed of three spiraled strands
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Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista
Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro September 3, 2018
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Dispersal by water
Biologist José Sabino studies the role fish play in maintaining riparian forest ecosystems
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Laser faucet
System simulates how light travels through the icy clouds of interstellar media
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