Why most organs available for transplantation in Brazil go unused
By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
International project is sequencing the DNA of more than 200 species in pursuit of tools to predict human propensity to diseases
By Maria Guimarães
Antidepressant effect occurs independently of the mechanism that alters perception of reality
By Felipe Floresti
Abnormal blood vessel formation affects the availability and utilization of lipids that constitute cell membranes
By Ricardo Zorzetto
In four bird of prey species, the factor that most influenced reproductivity was the availability of prey, not environmental changes
By Gilberto Stam
Fossils such as a tibia of a giant sloth, which can measure 60 centimeters, catch the eye amongst the shells on Concheiros beach in the state of Rio Grande do Sul
By Letícia Naísa
Fossils of marine microorganisms indicate that Caribbean waters inundated the Solimões basin at least 11 times over the last 23 million years
Mineral analysis used to reconstruct the landscape and movements of large blocks of rocks in the region around 600 million years ago
By Carlos Fioravanti
Currently on leave from USP, physicist Vanderlei Bagnato has spent most of his time in Texas, where he is working to set up a biophotonics laboratory modeled after the center he heads in São Paulo
By Marcos Pivetta
Atmospheric concentration of five types of gas responsible for destroying the ozone layer peaked in 2020
By Meghie Rodrigues
The total area of land covered by moss worldwide, almost equal to the size of China, removes 6.43 billion tons of gas from the atmosphere every year
By Guilherme Eler
Study analyzed 25 brands of tomato sauce available in a town in the state of São Paulo
Health agencies are suspending the use of drugs that have lost efficacy against circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2
By Renata Fontanetto
Analysis of an unprecedented volume of data could provide insights into human diseases
With 80% of the mass of the Sun and a radius of 10.4 kilometers, the object could be made up of free quarks
The work is considered a major breakthrough in the search for a solution to Ramsey's theorem, formulated in 1930
The marine and coastal environment in Brazil is undergoing intense degradation, demanding urgent action to alleviate problems that are piling up
Device is designed for several types of sensors, such as those used to detect gas leaks
By Domingos Zaparolli
At 1100 pages long, the new manual took a decade to produce
By Fabrício Marques
A study explores this rare type of coastal ecosystem located at the mouth of the Amazon River
Brazil contributed with five samples of sweet potato, four of rice, two of potato, and two of millet
Giant Magellan Telescope to receive US$205 million in fresh investment, including US$5 million from FAPESP
Scientists use technology to measure the birth rate of jaguars in the Pantanal
Rise in cancer and other diseases associated with drinking small amounts of alcohol challenges the notion of moderate consumption
Some 10,000 years ago, the Chinese made a fermented drink from a mixture of rice, honey, and fruit
Researchers have warned for years that without adequate soil drainage and occupation, chasms like those in Buriticupu, Maranhão, would grow
By Sarah Schmidt
Rodents and monkeys given an infusion of the compounds were able to survive infection
Mosquitoes infected with both PCLV and HTV are three times more likely to carry the dengue virus
In phase 1 trials involving 210 people, the low-cost formulation produced more neutralizing antibodies than the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine
Neurons from one region of the brain train those from another to count the ticking of seconds
