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The impact of brain circulation

Compared to other countries, Brazil sends fewer scientists abroad and has no policies to take advantage of their experiences

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Matamata, a bizarre turtle from Amazonia

The description of a new species may help fighting against illegal trafficking of these rainforest animals | 4'03

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Techniques in the search for a vaccine against Covid-19

Teams from several countries head projects seeking to produce imunizing agents in a short time

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How does deforestation relate to new pandemics?

See how environmental degradation can favor the emergence of unknown viruses and unleash diseases such as the one caused by the novel coronavirus.

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How do rivers and floodplains influence species formation in Amazonia?

Throughout millenia, water bodies and landscape changes favor plant and animal diversification in the region

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Predicting the spread of a disease

Altay de Souza, an epidemiologist and host of the podcast Naruhodo!, explain how the models which predict the coronavirus advance are built

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A blue pigment from beets

How chemist Erick Bastos' team, from the Chemistry Institute of the University of São Paulo, created a natural dye with industrial potential | 2'48

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These parrots use probability to get food

Biologist Amalia Bastos shows that birds from New Zealand can make calculations that so far only humans and chimpanzees were known to use

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Vídeo

Biologists uncover pollinating opossum

Almost 30 years after the suspicion was raised, discovery reduces the mystery of an unusual flower

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Careers

Space ahoy!

Engineer takes part in simulated space mission and could become Brazil’s first female astronaut

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Careers

Bullying at medical schools

Interpersonal violence at university can lead to depression and dropouts

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Data

Research funding at American universities

R&D expenditure at universities in the US has grown rapidly since 2015

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Good practices

Punished after reporting colleagues

An investigation by the Canadian Association of University Teachers found that the leaders of Thompson Rivers University violated the academic freedom of one of its professors

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Good practices

Retraction overview

A researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, published a paper that gives a comprehensive overview of scientific articles retracted due to errors, bias, fraud, or plagiarism

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Good practices

Outsourced quality control

Research institutions in Europe avoid accusations of misconduct by hiring external companies and specialists to check their work

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