Technoscience

Ginkgo biloba

The Ginkgo biloba genome

Researchers complete the first version of its genome

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Immunology

Vaccines preserved at room temperature

Chemical additives could increase the longevity of vaccines

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Physics

Ice at 105 degrees Celsius

Water confined in nanotubes solidifies between 105 and 151 degrees Celsius

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Amazonia

Increasing deforestation in Amazonia

Deforestation increased 29% compared to the previous period analyzed

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Restoration

Termites as restoration allies

Termite mound earth is the ingredient in a new formulation of mortar

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Zoology

The moon and bat hunger

Bat specie reduces insect demand due to moonlight

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Sustainability

Beer-making malt transformed into a guitar

A guitar made with cereal malt waste from beer-making

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Coffee

Physicians and coffee in 19th-century Brazil

Physicians in 19th century prescribed the drink to treat fevers

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Physics

Record-breaking entanglement

An experiment increased the number of entangled photons to 10

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Atmospherical Science

A national map of large hailstorms

Southern Brazil is one of the planet’s major hailstorm hotspots

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Biology

Frog equipped with ant-repellant

A substance allows young to develop inside anthills

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Epidemiology

Zika in the testicles

Zika virus damaged the testis and epididymis of male mice

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Black phosphorus

From infrared laser to green light

The material can combine the energy from three light particles

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Energy

Bendable LED consumes little energy

Bendable LED screen could be the basis for a hypothetical electronic paper

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Pierre Auger Observatory

More muons than predicted by the LHC

Up to 60% more muons detected in cosmic-ray shower

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Paubrasilia echinata

Brazilwood now has its own genus

Pau-brasil has become the first and only species of a new genus of trees

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Nutrition

Nanoparticle-fortified beans

Nanoparticles may be used to increase iron concentration in bean leaves

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Materials

A material that shrinks when heated

In experiment, heated structures bent in on themselves rather than expanding

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Astronomy

In the heart of Eta Carinae

Astrophysicists observed Eta Carinae at an unprecedented level of detail

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Evolution

Why snakes don’t have legs

Missing sequence of 17 base-pairs meant snakes grew no legs

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Ambystoma mexicanum

Regenerating salamander

Salamander can completely regenerate parts of its body

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Physics

Solid sphere floats on sound

Acoustic levitation suspended a sphere five centimeters in diameter

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water

Three times as many viruses in the oceans

A international study has found the DNA of 15,000 more viruses in all oceans

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Astronomy

Detailed map of the Milky Way

ESA released preliminary data on the survey of stars in the Milky Way

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computerized microtomographies

Microtomography virtually unwraps a biblical scroll

Digitally enhanced images allowed to decode a fragile scroll in Hebrew

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phosphoethanolamine

Non-toxic phosphoethanolamine

The drug was deemed safe after the phase 1 of clinical trial

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Physics

Quasiparticle formation

A team of physicists observed the formation of a type of quasiparticle

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Neuroscience

Diversity in neuronal DNA

"Jumping genes" can cause deletions of stretches of the genome

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Paleontology

Two pre-mammals in southern Brazil

Two new species of cynodonts were described in the science literature

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obesity

Excess weight and the brain

Excess weight can alter some brain structures

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