Highlights

Medicine

Drug program reduces deaths

A federal program designed to provide greater access to drugs that combat chronic disease has significantly reduced deaths and hospitalizations associated with hypertension and diabetes

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Archaeology

Megamonuments may have originated in France

Archaeologist concluded that the first structures of Stonehenge were created roughly 6,500 years ago in what is now Brittany, northwest France

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Technology

A fabric that keeps you cool in the heat and warm in the cold

A high-tech fabric is capable of altering its structure depending on heat and humidity, thus helping to maintain a stable body temperature

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Geography

The wandering North Pole

The North Magnetic Pole has been moving faster than expected from Canada toward Siberia, Russia, in recent years

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Zoology

Bees capable of adding and subtracting

Apis mellifera bees can learn to recognize quantities

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Geology

Light Brazilian earthquakes

Brazil experiences earthquakes of a low to medium magnitude, similar to those of central-eastern USA and the interior of Australia

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Botany

Rare Cuban flora

The library at Cornell University, USA, has published a scanned copy of a nineteenth-century manuscript on Cuban flora by American botanist Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft on its website

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Urbanism

Controversial airport on sacred Incan land

The recently started construction of an international airport in Chinchero, southeastern Peru, has raised concerns about potential damage to archaeological sites in the region

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Data

Women earning PhDs in Brazil

A total of 21,591 researchers received PhDs in Brazil in 2017

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Good practices

Inappropriate reviewer behavior

The Oxford University Press journal Bioinformatics recently published a case study on misconduct in the peer review process

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Good practices

The American connection

The controversial baby gene-editing experiment performed in China may have directly involved a scientist from the USA

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Good practices

An algorithm for evaluating research credibility

The Pentagon wants to develop a tool capable of identifying whether social and behavioral science research results are credible

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Photolab

Rare white cougar captured on camera

Hidden cameras in the Serra dos Órgãos National Park in Rio de Janeiro captured rare photographs of a cougar with a white coat—known to biologists as leucism

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Careers

The Russian who dreams of changing health in Brazil

Economist finds business support and methodologies in science

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Careers

Risks to academic liberty

At least 79 academics around the world violently attacked or killed in less than a year

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