Highlights

Good practices

The spread of plagiarism

Russian Academy of Sciences uncovers widespread misconduct, leading to the retraction of 869 articles

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Photolab

Plant-stem lace

If you take a thin slice of a young stem of Acleisanthes chenopodioides and look at it under a microscope, this is what you will see

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Profile

Clean water

Scientist from Salvador, Bahia, earns international recognition for new cistern design

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Careers

Professional caregivers

Importance of the nursing profession grows with increasing life expectancy and aging population

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Retrospect

An x-ray of Brazilian agriculture

Brazil’s first Census of Agriculture in 1920 marked the country’s early transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy

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Literature

Capturing the specific and the concrete

The release of previously unpublished poems, a biographical essay, and events mark the 100th birthday of João Cabral de Melo Neto

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Public policy

At the service of justice

Progress in forensic research is being hampered by structural problems in Brazil’s criminal investigation system

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Automotive engineering

An electric in the dunes

A Paraná startup develops an electric-powered buggy for beach tourism

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Interview

Ezequiel Zylberberg: Diagnosis of an ecosystem

MIT researcher claims long-term investment in the country is essential to create companies of world-class innovation

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Industry 4.0

Digital mining

Technology is helping to enhance productivity and safety in a high-risk industry

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Public health

Novel coronavirus in Brazil

The new coronavirus that emerged in China has arrived in the country, where four other less dangerous types already circulate

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Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years

Stories on the wing

Both living and extinct birds have been the subjects of various reports over 20 years of Pesquisa FAPESP

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Ecology

Winged invasion

In four decades, 35 alien bird species have colonized deforested areas on experimental properties in Brazil’s Amazon

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Paleontology

The extinct manatee of Rondônia

Newly discovered species lived in the Madeira River region 45,000 years ago

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Microbiology

Fighting infections with graphene

Nanomaterial enables low doses of light to eliminate bacteria

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