Highlights
Good practices
Cash reward for finding errors in influential articles
Over the next four years, a program based at the University of Bern, Switzerland, will pay experts to look for errors in over one hundred influential scientific articles. The more problems they find, the more money they will receive. Each will be paid a minimum of US$285 if they find nothing, rising to more than... View Article
By Redação
Good practices
Scientist who publishes more than one paper per week has had 20 retracted
Saudi pharmacist Nabil Alhakamy has published 219 scientific articles since 2020—an average of more than one per week. The quality of his academic work, however, is now under question: more than 20 of his articles have been retracted in recent years, mostly due to problems with images and figures. The most recent was a paper... View Article
By Redação
PUBLIC POLICY
Report identifies 476 invasive species in Brazil
Invasive plant and animal species threaten biodiversity and cause damage
Cover
Brazil getting drier
Global warming makes the climate less humid, leading to emergence of the country’s first arid zone
By Marcos Pivetta and Renata Fontanetto
Paleontology
Plentiful hunting in the rivers
Turtle fossil found in a mine in the Madeira River basin belonged to one of the largest species ever described
By Redação
History
Shipwrecks record history of slavery
Archaeologists in the Bahamas identify 14 slave ships that sank between 1767 and 1860
By Redação
COVID-19
Even after being destroyed, the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc
Even when broken apart by the human immune system, the SARS-CoV-2 virus still causes excessive inflammation
By Redação
Computing
Carbonized ancient philosophy
Brazilian team is among the winners of the international Vesuvius Challenge to identify writing on carbonized scrolls
By Redação