Highlights

Interview

Carlos Augusto Monteiro: The normality of being overweight

USP epidemiologist studying the effects of nutrition on health attributes the rise in obesity to the transformation of the food system

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Public health

An overweight world

There are now more than one billion people with obesity worldwide, and the number is expected to grow even further in the next decade

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Data

Impacts of Innovations with Environmental Benefits (IWEBs)

Research shows the importance of innovations with environmental benefits

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Good practices

Hell is other people

Researchers tend to overestimate their academic honesty, suggests study of more than 11,000 Swedish scientists and doctoral students

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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

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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 The quality of his academic work, however, is now under question: more than 20 of his articles have been retracted in recent years, mostly due to problems with images and figures.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

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Communication

Brazilian researcher wins award for dance about kangaroos

Doctoral student’s music video sharing the results of his research in Australia won the international Dance Your Ph.D. competition

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PUBLIC POLICY

Report identifies 476 invasive species in Brazil

Invasive plant and animal species threaten biodiversity and cause damage

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Indicators

Brazilian research serves as a reference for public policies in several countries, study shows

Survey highlights the influence of articles by scientists from the state of São Paulo

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Planning

Preparatory events gather suggestions for the National Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation

Dozens of meetings held across Brazil bring together the scientific community and other sectors of society

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Interview

Luis Bahamondes: The paradoxes of women’s health

The specialist in methods of contraception warns about the importance of long-lasting forms of birth control for reducing the risk of unplanned pregnancy and abortion

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Cover

Region in the north of Minas Gerais suffers its driest period in over seven centuries

The conclusion is based on analysis of the chemical composition of cave rocks in the municipality of Januária, located in the São Francisco River basin

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Cover

Global warming accelerates the water cycle and increases evapotranspiration

Excess atmospheric moisture can generate both heavy rainfall and prolonged droughts

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Cover

Brazil getting drier

Global warming makes the climate less humid, leading to emergence of the country’s first arid zone

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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

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