Highlights

Corporate research

Natural flavor

Duas Rodas, in southern Brazil, is investing to develop food ingredients that are responsive to emerging consumer demands

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Information technology

Deciphering blockchain

System created to support cryptocurrency is now being used in a number of other applications

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Civil engineering

High-tech construction sites

New technologies, digital tools, and mass production aim to raise productivity

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Astronautics

The private conquest of the Cosmos

A capsule of the company SpaceX flies to the International Space Station and may give the United States the capacity to put humans in orbit

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Zoology

The origin of perching birds

A group representing more than 60% of bird species originated in Australia 47 million years ago, study finds

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Zoology

The Alta Floresta titi

A new species of monkey is discovered in northern Mato Grosso State

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Animal nutrition

A diet of chicken and corn

Studies find that the majority of dog food in Brazil is based on a less-than-ideal formula of these two ingredients

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Geology

New copper finds north of Carajás

Survey reveals potentially vast reserves of the metal in the Bacajá region

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GEOGRAPHY

The young Amazon

Central region of the rainforest may have formed just 45,000 years ago as wetlands receded

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Interview

Peretz Lavie: Building an innovation ecosystem

The president of Technion talks about the principles and guidelines that led an Israeli university to becoming a global benchmark

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INNOVATION

Proliferating startups

Innovative life science companies attract investment in Lausanne, Switzerland

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Publications

Articles animated

Scientific journals publish videos to make research and experimental results more transparent and educational

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STEM education 

Giving wings to curiosity

Seventeenth edition of Brazilian Science & Engineering Fair brings together top science projects from across the country

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open access

How to survive without subscribing to scientific journals

Digital tools and social networks help students and researchers find articles online

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INTERVIEW

Jairton Dupont: The radical chemist

The specialist in ionic liquids defends a more open, pluralistic, and democratic university

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