Highlights

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Plastic pollution, in numbers and pictures

Since the mid-20th century, an estimated 8,9 billion tons of plastics have been produced worldwide

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Careers

Reducing roadkill

Biologist wins environmental conservation award for her wildlife monitoring and management startup

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Careers

The importance of (good) public speaking

Balanced and thought-provoking presentations can help disseminate research results and open doors to new opportunities

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OBITUARY

News with reflection

Maria da Graça Mascarenhas helped to create Pesquisa FAPESP

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CINEMA

A book for cinephiles

26 researchers analyze in a book a century of national production

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INTERVIEW

Basilio Losada: Literary mediator

First interpreter for Jorge Amado of Spain, philologist Basilio Losada translated close to 150 books in eight languages

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Law

Judiciary undergoing transformation

Opposing the trend of the 1990s, study identifies fewer women and working class among Brazilian judges

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Corporate research

Natural flavor

Duas Rodas, in southern Brazil, is investing to develop food ingredients that are responsive to emerging consumer demands

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Information technology

Deciphering blockchain

System created to support cryptocurrency is now being used in a number of other applications

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Civil engineering

High-tech construction sites

New technologies, digital tools, and mass production aim to raise productivity

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Astronautics

The private conquest of the Cosmos

A capsule of the company SpaceX flies to the International Space Station and may give the United States the capacity to put humans in orbit

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Zoology

The origin of perching birds

A group representing more than 60% of bird species originated in Australia 47 million years ago, study finds

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Zoology

The Alta Floresta titi

A new species of monkey is discovered in northern Mato Grosso State

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Animal nutrition

A diet of chicken and corn

Studies find that the majority of dog food in Brazil is based on a less-than-ideal formula of these two ingredients

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Geology

New copper finds north of Carajás

Survey reveals potentially vast reserves of the metal in the Bacajá region

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