Highlights

Funding

Reap what you sow

With ambitions to quadruple capital invested, São Paulo investment fund backs 20 innovative companies

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Global warming

Hotter and drier cities

Modeling indicates temperatures will rise and rainfall will be halved in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Santos by the end of the century

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Interview

José Antonio Marengo Orsini: A time of uncertainty

Climatologist says society can perceive climate change but has difficulty adopting adaptive measures

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Cover

Before memory loss

Psychiatric problems may be the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease

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Climate

Understanding extreme storms

Some of the strongest and most devastating storms on the planet are formed in a wide strip of the Pampas region in the north of Argentina

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Environment

Dutch court orders government to cut greenhouse gases

An appeals court in the Netherlands ruled that the government must accelerate its plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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Astronomy

The first colossuses in the Cosmos

Two recent findings, however, suggest that some colossal systems already existed at 13.8 billion years ago

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Optics

Evidence that Da Vinci had strabismus

The Mona Lisa painter had strabismus and may have known how to use it to his advantage

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Economy

China closing in on the USA

US$254 billion was the approximate value invested in R&D activities by China in 2017

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Paleontology

The gregarious habits of an herbivorous reptile

Researchers from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul found an assemblage of fossils from at least six different Dinodontosaurus individuals

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Epidemiology

Potential sylvatic cycle of Zika in Brazil

Brazilian researchers have identified the Zika virus in the carcasses of monkeys found in the interior of São Paulo State and in Minas Gerais

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Communication

Online tool tries to identify fake news

Researchers are developing a tool for verifying whether articles shared on the internet or through instant messaging apps are real or fake

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Archaeology

The origin of chocolate and camouflaged fungus

Artifacts that belonged to native Americans between 5,300 and 2,100 years ago hold the earliest evidence of the domestication and use of cacao

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Medicine

Homage to Henrietta Lacks and her cells

Johns Hopkins University, USA, is to name a new ethics research building in honor of Henrietta Lacks

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Environment

Hope for the Atlantic Forest

The Atlantic Forest covers 28% of the area it occupied before European colonization

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