Highlights

Public Health

Putting a stop to smoking

WHO launches first clinical guideline to help people quit smoking

By Redação

Printed

Read the international issue

By Redação

Geography

Disputed territories

Mineral extraction for energy transition aggravates land possession and water access conflicts in Brazil

By Christina Queiroz

Archaeology

The Amazon revealed

Researchers meet with people from the rainforest to discuss how laser scanning can provide information about the region’s past and contribute to its future

By Maria Guimaraes, reporting from Manaus

Biotechnology

Stings neutralized

Scientists developed a serum for the stings of Africanized bees, which are responsible for 30,000 accidents per year in Brazil

By Suzel Tunes

Neurology

A potential model of Alzheimer’s disease

Brazilian researchers identify characteristic lesions of human neurodegenerative disease in the brains of capuchin monkeys

By Giselle Soares

Medicine

Oropouche on the prowl

New variant of virus multiplies rapidly and may facilitate disease transmission

By Gilberto Stam

Immunology

Protection against severe dengue

The candidate vaccine from Butantan reduces the risk of developing the severe form of the disease by 89%

By Ricardo Zorzetto

Ecology

The surprising faces of the Caatinga

The diversity of landscapes underpins the proposed new classification of semiarid environments

By Carlos Fioravanti

Physics

Closer to neutrinos

Brazilian scholars have developed methods to purify liquid argon for the international DUNE project; the aim of this experiment is to detect the mysterious particles known as neutrinos

By Renata Fontanetto