Highlights

Interview

Regional economics expert advocates for strengthening mid-sized cities in Brazil

Clelio Campolina Diniz was dean of UFMG and served as minister of science, technology & innovation

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Cover

Cuts to US science budgets threaten global climate research

Discontinuation of NASA and NOAA projects monitoring the atmosphere and oceans for decades poses a major risk

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Cover

Brazil’s carbon footprint determined by deforestation and agriculture

The two sectors account for 70% of the country’s greenhouse gases emissions

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Ecology

Marine animal conservation failures

Global study warns of declining marine animal populations

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Medicine

Another way to measure blood cholesterol

Combination of lipoprotein markers could more accurately assess heart disease risk

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Ethnobotany

A plant with many uses dating back 2,700 years

Wild rue was used 2,700 years ago as a medicine, to purify spaces, and for its psychoactive effects

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Nutrition

The only country self-sufficient in food

Guyana is the only country in the world that produces enough basic food to sustain its own population

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Geology

Climbing rocks receive little attention

Around 80% of climbing sites lack signage, environmental management, and visitor guidelines

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Zoology

White-tailed deer populations recover

US deer population grew from 300,000 to 35 million after hunting declined in the twentieth century

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Innovation

Fixing cracks in concrete with lichen

Lichens mixed into concrete repair cracks

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Astrophysics

The Gas Giant was once bigger

Jupiter rapidly doubled in volume soon after the formation of the Solar System

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FAPESP

New scientific coordinator at Pesquisa FAPESP

Luiz Britto named new scientific coordinator of Pesquisa FAPESP

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Xenotransplantation

First two pig kidney transplants

First two people to receive genetically modified pig kidneys die

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Paleontology

X-ray of an ancient organism

X-ray analysis shows that the first animals with skeletons, which lived 55 million years ago, were elongated and tubular

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Acknowledgment

Vahan Agopyan given title of professor emeritus at USP

Vahan Agopyan awarded title of professor emeritus at USP

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