Highlights

S&T POLICY

A legacy for the future

A decree issued in 1989 created an original funding model that unlocked extraordinary growth at state universities in São Paulo

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Interview

France Córdova: Understanding the nature of things

Director of the National Science Foundation talks about the importance of funding basic science and evaluates the contribution to society made by the social sciences

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Cover

From war to space

July 20 marks the 50th anniversary of humankind’s arrival on the Moon, the final chapter of a technological and military saga filled with twists and turns

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Cover

Brazilian lunar mission

Garatéa-L project plans to put a nanosatellite into lunar orbit to study how life responds to high levels of radiation

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COVER

Returning to the Moon

The USA wants to put astronauts back on the Moon by 2024, this time with the aim of establishing a permanent settlement

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Botany

Plants with miner roots

Study demonstrates a new function of the roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha

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Medicine

Stroke deaths fall by 30% in 15 years

The survey was based on death records available from the Brazilian Ministry of Health's national health information system

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2020

European Research Council appoints new president

Italian engineer Mauro Ferrari will take over the presidency of the European Research Council

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Evolution

A 42-million-year-old whale with legs

Its limbs were well adapted to swimming and were not suited to moving across land

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Environment

The long goodbye of the glaciers

Mountain glaciers in southwestern Argentina and northeastern Spain are rapidly losing ice and could disappear completely by the end of the century

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Communication

Plan S pushed back to 2021

The decision was made to give scientific publishers more time to transform their current subscription journals into publications whose costs are covered exclusively by article authors, with no fees for readers

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Physics

UNICAMP dean wins José Reis award

The panel of judges highlighted "the scope and diversity of his scientific communication work, including his contributions to education in this field"

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Archaeology

Ancient use of psychoactive substances in Bolivia

An international team of anthropologists and bioarchaeologists has identified traces of hallucinogenic substances in a 1,000-year-old leather bag found in the Bolivian Andes

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Archaeology

São Paulo’s largest rock art

Scientists working on an exploratory research project that began in 2014 have discovered an 80-meter piece of rock art in Ribeirão Bonito, in the center of São Paulo State

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Mobility

Ride-sharing apps worsen traffic

According to research, Uber and Lyft are behind increased congestion on the streets of San Francisco

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