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Young adults

Students, workers, and those who neither study nor work

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Good practices

Controversial list

Sectors of China's scientific community have criticized the government's proposal to create a national blacklist of poor-quality academic journals

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Good practices

Fraud casts a shadow over stem cell research

The National Institutes of Health has instructed researchers to temporarily suspend stem cell therapy trials in heart failure patients

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Good practices

The weight of Justice

Researchers debate whether scientific misconduct should be treated as a crime

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Photolab

Magnetic circles

LED light strips, a cylindrical magnet, and a thin film of ferrofluid is the recipe for the diffraction effect in which the colored lights form circles

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CAREERS

From litter to literature

After spending his childhood working in a landfill, Dorival dos Santos Filho concludes his doctorate in linguistics

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CAREERS

Showcasing yourself as a scientist

Market analysis can help researchers create a strong academic résumé, increasing research opportunities

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OBITUARY

In order to understand Brazilian populations

Francisco Salzano bolstered genetic research of the country’s human populations

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OBITUARY

Science pioneer

Warwick Kerr trained teams and directed research institutions, and was always attentive to the use of scientific knowledge

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ARCHITECTURE

Paths of reconstruction

UNESCO specialists will help Brazil rebuild the São Cristóvão Palace using modern security techniques

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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE

In memoriam

The National Museum's Historical Archives, which were consumed by the fire, will be reconstituted based on records made over the years on a variety of media

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MUSEOLOGY

The hidden lives of museum collections

Preservation of museum collections involves complex work and multidisciplinary teams

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Amazonia

Brother in the North

Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará reaches 152nd anniversary with 4.5 million items preserved, but few protected

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BOTANY

The roots of knowledge

Installed a decade ago in its own building at Quinta da Boa Vista, the herbarium survived intact

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ZOOLOGY

Saved fauna

The National Museum and USP Zoology Museum hold vast animal collections that can be difficult to preserve

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