Highlights

Archaeology

Intact 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb

Archaeologists discover Etruscan tomb containing 100 intact objects

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History

Indigenous protest in the seventeenth century

Document from 1645 shows that Indigenous people were dissatisfied with their enslavement by Europeans

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Medicine

New way to identify muscle weakness

Value revision for sarcopenia diagnosis doubles case count

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Nutrition

Highs and lows of ultra-processed food consumption

People living in capital cities in the South and Southeast of Brazil eat more ultra-processed foods

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Geography

Freshwater scarce in the Northern Hemisphere

Earth’s continents have suffered an unprecedented loss of freshwater since 2002

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Foundation

New FAPESP executive director

Carlos Graeff is appointed as executive director of FAPESP’s Executive Board

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Biodiversity

Wolves help aspens grow again

Aspen trees growing again in Yellowstone Park after the reintroduction of gray wolves

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Biodiversity

A big worm? No, a snake

World's smallest snake rediscovered under a rock in a forest on the Caribbean island of Barbados

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Photolab

Parasite nest

Image shows nests of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi in cardiac cells

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Research itineraries

Geographer investigates how countries in the Global South can build cooperation networks

Jorge Mortean lived in Iran, where he earned a master's degree and learned Persian, the country’s official language

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Retrospect

Launched 70 years ago, the polio vaccine has prevented thousands of deaths

Now, the low immunization rate is paving the way for polio to return

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Obituary

Zootechnician integrated the science of animal welfare into livestock farming

Mateus Paranhos da Costa devoted his research to balancing livestock productivity with quality of life for animals

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Obituary

Film personality Jean-Claude Bernardet dies at 88

Researcher, actor, and writer leaves a far-reaching legacy in critical thinking and the arts

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Obituary

Luiz Henrique Lopes dos Santos reconciled philosophical reflections with the formulation of science policy

USP professor conducted renowned studies on the philosophy of logic and was translating Aristotle directly from Greek into Portuguese

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Linguistics

What our ways of speaking say about us and others

Researchers investigate how language variation influences social perception and shapes identities

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