Guia Covid-19

Highlights

Careers

High speed

Brazilian scientist sets world record during fiber optic connection studies

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CAREERS

Settling accounts

Newly qualified accountants are abandoning tradition to become business decision-makers

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RETROSPECT

The shadow of the white plague

Tuberculosis persists, even 100 years after its vaccine was invented

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OBITUARY

In theory and in practice

An enthusiast of empirical research, Leôncio Martins Rodrigues helped to pioneer social-science studies in Brazil

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EDUCATION

Learning at the turn of the century

Research examines enrollment and attendance rates to measure Brazil’s progress in education

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History

The visible and the invisible

Despite attempts to erase the iconography of slavery, it has left its mark on both the people and the land

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Public policy

Health under construction

Researchers propose a collaborative model to help prevent workplace accidents

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Neurology

Epileptic seizure warning

São Paulo startup develops wearable device designed to identify seizures half an hour before they occur

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INNOVATION

Start, fall down, get up, start over

This describes the lives of entrepreneurs facing continuous unforeseen events on the road to success

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ENVIRONMENT

Less forest, more agriculture

South America loses natural vegetation while livestock and crops gain ground over the last three and a half decades

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Physics

The muon enigma

Two recent experiments reveal anomalous behavior in these mysterious particles that, if confirmed, could lead to a revision of the dominant theory of matter

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Health

The first bonding

Instructional home visits by nurses help teen mothers bond with their babies and contribute to child development

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REGULATIONS

Weakened legislation

Brazil dismantling environmental protection structures during the pandemic

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GENDER

COVID-19, a battle fought by women

Network of female researchers looks for solutions to the challenges faced by women during the pandemic and seeks to influence public policy

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Science communication

Broad and equitable research access

CAPES’s Portal de Periódicos has connected Brazilian researchers to state-of-the-art research in their fields, but is now faced with uncertainties

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