Technoscience

bacteria

Tobacco, alcohol, and your microbiota

Alcohol and tobacco consuption may alter oral microbiota

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quantum mechanics

Isolated atom

New technique uses magnetic fields to isolate atoms

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PVC and nanoparticles

Silver in food-grade plastic wrap

Film is designed to provide a safer shrink-wrap packaging for food

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Charles Darwin

Darwin online

Cambridge Digital Library publishes high-resolution digitized manuscripts

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Fireflies

Born to shine

Insect needs a lot more energy to fly than to light up their abdomens

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Energy storage

Energy stored in cigarette butts

Researchers discover how to reuse cigarette filters

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sustainable

Cruising on solar energy

Boat capable of carrying up to 16 people does not pollute or use fuel

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Eleutherodactylus johnstonei

Noisy frogs, sleepless nights in São Paulo

Noisy frogs, sleepless nights in São Paulo

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perfluorocarbon

Protective layer

Group develops coating that prevents contamination of medical devices

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Sweet Grape tomatoes

Luminous supplementation

ESALQ tests bars with LEDs for solar radiation supplementation

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Watson platform

Watson learns Portuguese

IBM's cognitive computing system will learn new languages

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Amazon

Who are the deforesters?

Large properties account for much of the deforestation

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food

Toxin in peanuts

Unicamp identifies toxic substance and antioxidant in peanuts

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metals

Beware of chocolate

Brazilian chocolate contains small quantities of cadmium and lead

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botany

Tiny pools in the sertão

Bromeliad leaves create a natural trap for pollen in the badlands

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clothing

Spacesuit of the future

MIT develops lighter and form-fitting spacesuit

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diabetes

As bad as sugar, or worse

Artificial sweeteners' effects may be the opposite of desired

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sustainability

The second generation is arriving

Plant starts to make ethanol from sugarcane harvest leftovers

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biological clock

Why we are daytime creatures

Genetics may explain why humans and monkeys have diurnal habits

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paleontology

The pains of a sloth

Bone lesion identified on giant sloth fossil

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best friend

Man’s best friend

Dogs are more interested in people's actions than in objects

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universe

Galactic disks

Current galaxies are a product of repeated collisions, specialists say

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mimetism

Inspired by octopuses

MIT scientists reproduce squid and octopus' color changing ability

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historical tremor

When the Amazon shook

Magnitude 7 earthquake happened on the left bank of the Amazon

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space

Ethanol-fueled rocket

Brazilian suborbital rocket successfully launched

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embrapa

Mapped soils

Digital maps of Brazilian soils may contribute to conservation

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photonics

The light that sees what it couldn’t see

Group takes photographs without using light particles

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diagnosis

Quicker diagnoses for diseases

Non-invasive test detects incurable neurodegenerative disorder

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Archaeology

Cutting-edge technology

Archaeologists have discovered Brazil's first prehistoric workshop

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Control

Winged biorobots

Methods electronically manipulate moths

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