Highlights

Nobel Prize 2018 | Medicine

Immunotherapy for fighting cancer

Two immunologists shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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illegal capture

DNA helps track ivory traffickers

Genetic studies are helping to shape government policies against international ivory trafficking in the US and Africa

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open-access

Twenty years since it first launched, SciELO announces preprints platform

SciELO announced plans to create a preprints repository in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project

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FAPESP Board of Trustees

Marco Antonio Zago is new FAPESP president

Marco Antonio Zago took over as president of FAPESP on the morning of October 5

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Physics

Higgs, a well-behaved boson

Physicists have been investigating how the Higgs boson particle interacts with others

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History

405-year-old letter suggests Galileo toned down his beliefs

A letter found at the Royal Society in London suggests that Galileo Galilei softened his stance against the ecclesiastical doctrine that the Sun orbited Earth to avoid arrest by the Roman Inquisition

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Physics

Vibrations created by light in mirrors

An international group of researchers accurately isolated and measured the vibrations generated when a beam of light touches the surface of a mirror and is reflected back

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Environment

Mangroves store more carbon than the rainforest

In the Amazon, every hectare of mangrove contains twice as much carbon as the same area of inland forest

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DATA

Higher education

Distance learning grows in popularity while graduation rates remain low

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GOOD PRACTICES

Research hospital director resigns amid conflicts of interest

Medical director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York has stepped down

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GOOD PRACTICES

Publish or Perish

Open-access scientific journal Nutrients recently lost all ten of its senior editors

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GOOD PRACTICES

Habitual fraud

Japanese researchers lead the list of scientists with the highest number of retracted articles

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Photolab

Pre-Columbian Culture

Fragments of ceramic figures indicate that at the time there was a cultural connection between peoples across South America

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Video

The eclipse which revolutionized physics

This Wednesday, May 29th, celebrates 100 years of the eclipse which was the first experimental proof of the Theory of General Relativity | 2'36"

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Art

Dispersal by water

The piraputanga is pictured snagging a wild fig

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