Highlights
Biochemistry
Venomous amphibians
Caecilians are venomous animals, capable of injecting venom into their prey, say researchers from the Butantan Institute
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Atmospherical Science
South American megaflashes
The longest lightning bolt ever recorded stretched 709 kilometers across southern Brazil on October 31, 2018, the World Meteorological Organization reported in June
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History
The first voyages across the Pacific
The first inhabitants of Polynesia had contact with native peoples from the Americas just over 800 years ago
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Data
Business R&D spending falls sharply
Spending on research and development by businesses fell nationwide and in São Paulo compared to 2014
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Good practices
Appointment canceled after scandal
The Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine in Padua, Italy, revoked geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi’s appointment as scientific director after members of its scientific advisory board resigned en masse in protest
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Good practices
The limits of text recycling
A group of researchers is analyzing the extent to which an author can reuse excerpts of their own academic work in new papers without being accused of plagiarism
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photolab
A look through the lens
Iny: o brilho dos espíritos, which captures a ritual of the Karajá people from the state of Mato Grosso, placed first in the Images Produced by Cameras category of the Science & Art Photography Prize
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Covid-19
Research during quarantine
Fernando Carvall“When I saw the results, I thought: this virus is going to infect everyone” The first reports about the disease in China sparked my curiosity. The Chinese discovered that the virus enters the cells via the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 [ACE2] receptor. Its expression depends on the ACE2 gene, which plays an important role in... View Article
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