Highlights

Archaeology

The oldest library in Germany

Construction works on a church community center have revealed the ruins of a Roman library in the city of Cologne, Germany

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the Meghalayan age

A new chapter in Earth’s history

The proposal approved by the IUGS divides the Holocene into three ages: the Greenlandian, Northgrippian, and Meghalayan

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Biodiversity

The Geoffroy’s cat and its behavior

Biologists monitored a population of Geoffroy's cats (Leopardus geoffroyi) in the Caverá mountains

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Health

Alcohol consumption and health risks

Alcohol consumption is the leading cause of health problems in people aged 15–49

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Neuroscience

Pain neurons grown in a laboratory

Brazilian researchers have developed human sensory neurons in a laboratory for the first time

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Data

Patent filings increase and industry shows weakness

In 2017, residents of Brazil filed 5,480 patents at the Brazilian National Institute of Intellectual Property

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GOOD PRACTICES

Inappropriate relationships

Universities Australia has released a document aimed at master's and PhD supervisors and students

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GOOD PRACTICES

When recklessness becomes misconduct

An american neuroscientist dismissed for misconduct in 2012 by Wayne State University has managed to partially overturn his 10-year ban on federal research funding handed down by the US ORI

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GOOD PRACTICES

Four shades of academic plagiarism

India releases new guidelines on how to punish plagiarism in scientific papers and proposes a scale for assessing the severity of the problem

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Photolab

Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista

Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro September 3, 2018

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PROFILE

Lady of the water

Concern about the quality of water resources leads a young woman from the state of Santa Catarina to work for the UN

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CAREERS

Creative leisure

Hobbies can increase productivity and improve the ability to innovate

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RETROSPECT

Development theories

Seventy years ago, ECLAC created strategies for the industrialization of Latin American countries

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CINEMA

A Swedish filmmaker in Copacabana

Research reveals the Brazilian dimension of the work of Arne Sucksdorff, best known for documentaries about nature

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EDUCATION

Science and video games

Researchers discover new uses for computer games

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