Highlights
Archaeology
Incans charged agricultural tax
A specific type of quipu may be the first evidence that taxes were collected by the ancient Incan empire
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Biology
Giants with their own light source
Researchers have now isolated the substances involved in Dosidicus gigas bioluminescence
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Funding
Endowment fund veto overturned
Brazilian Congress rescinded a veto by President Jair Bolsonaro that prevented foundations that fund public universities from acting as managers of philanthropic funds known as endowment funds
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Astronomy
Mystery on the Moon
Near the South Pole of the Moon, on the side not seen from Earth, there is a crater of colossal proportions
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Education
Refugees better educated than the average Brazilian
Most refugees arriving in Brazil have a high-school diploma (while one-third have a degree) and are working
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Medicine
Jean Purdy’s overlooked contribution to IVF
British nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy made a decisive contribution to the development of in vitro fertilization
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Medicine
Fecal transplant tragedy
The US FDA has suspended clinical trials of fecal microbiota transplantation
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paleontology
A new sharp-clawed dinosaur
Vespersaurus paranaensis is the first dinosaur to be found in this state in southern Brazil
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Good practices
Academy may expel members for misconduct
The US National Academy of Sciences has announced a change to its bylaws to allow the expulsion of members who violate the organization's code of conduct
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Good practices
Is it possible to derive good from evil?
The quality and usefulness of the Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy is now raising ethical questions
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Good practices
A new reward system
World conference in Hong Kong proposes changes to evaluation processes to help improve scientific integrity
PHOTOLAB
Laboratory brain
Biologist Caroline Brandão Teles has been studying the relationship between schizophrenia and defects in neural cells known as oligodendrocytes—which she has been attempting to create from stem cells
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Data
Spending at universities with a high number of graduate students
Spending at universities with a high number of graduate students
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