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In the eye of a giant

Upon entry into operation, the Manacá beamline at the Sirius laboratory was directed at crystals of the 3CL protein, part of the mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 virus multiplies

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Ancient dunes

The sand dunes on the banks of the São Francisco River, the most extensive inland dunes in Brazil, began to form more than 20,000 years ago

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Pond life

Tadpoles are as easy to find as they are difficult to identify

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Fluorescence in motion

When added to viscous alcohol using a pipette, aminoquinoline slowly rises due to differences in density between the two substances, and as they mix, a fluorescent glow is emitted, visible in black light

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A look through the lens

Iny: o brilho dos espíritos, which captures a ritual of the Karajá people from the state of Mato Grosso, placed first in the Images Produced by Cameras category of the Science & Art Photography Prize

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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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Underwater nursery

The Okenia polycerelloides sea slug reproduces in the pantry

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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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Dispersal by water

The piraputanga is pictured snagging a wild fig

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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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