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A platform for sharing Brazilian science
November 17, 2020 2:57 pmAgência Bori, an online platform designed to help journalists access Brazilian science, began operating on February 12
The Zika virus and astrocytes
November 17, 2020 2:57 pmFirst isolated in Africa in 1947, the Zika virus has a predilection for brain cells
Physicists immobilize glass particle
November 17, 2020 2:55 pmA research group in Austria cooled the first solid state object—a nanometer fragment of glass a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand
Neanderthal genes in Africa
November 17, 2020 2:55 pmAccording to the research, Europeans and Asians have about three times as much Neanderthal DNA as Africans
A giant, sleeping galaxy
November 17, 2020 2:55 pmAn international group of astronomers has identified a rare galaxy, known only as XMM-2599, which formed very early in the history of the universe
Millennia of migration
November 17, 2020 2:54 pmSome birds travel almost unbelievable distances, sometimes across continents, in pursuit of warmer climates and food to survive and reproduce
Engineer salaries for men and women in Brazil1
November 17, 2020 2:50 pmAverage real salary for engineers in Brazil grew between 2006 and 2013 and fell from 2013 to 2018
Predatory journal training
November 17, 2020 2:49 pmThe University Grants Commission has decreed that universities in the country must train all PhD students in the ethics of scientific publication
Support for the publication of unexpected results
November 17, 2020 2:49 pm€1,000 is offered as a bonus to researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health who publish negative results
Crackdown on fraudulent citations
November 17, 2020 2:49 pmPublishers and journals attempt to combat fraudulent conduct in the article review process
Women and Science
November 17, 2020 2:47 pmModern science and its remarkable advances are closely associated with the ideas and research of men. Although this perception is... View Article
Needle in a haystack
November 17, 2020 2:43 pmIn this collage ultra-diffuse galaxies are shown by the faint white patches in the center of each square
Eradicating malaria
November 9, 2020 4:32 pmCongolese student uses artificial intelligence to fight the disease, which affects more than 210 million people a year
Pause for reflection
November 9, 2020 4:32 pmPopularized in the USA at the end of the nineteenth century, sabbatical leave provides an opportunity for personal growth and can provide professional benefits
Scientific publications by country: number of authors and number of articles
November 9, 2020 4:30 pmThe 2020 State of US Science and Engineering report, published by the National Science Foundation, shows the number of scientific articles per country from 2000 to 2018
Article retracted by Nobel Prize winner
November 9, 2020 4:22 pmFrances Arnold, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the evolution of enzymes, announced on Twitter that her group was retracting a scientific article published last year
Guidelines canceled after opioid crisis
November 9, 2020 4:22 pmThe World Health Organization has announced the retraction of two guidelines on the use of opioidsfor pain control
Employees or spies?
November 9, 2020 4:22 pmReport recommends ways of preventing foreign influence on research in the USA
The machine man
November 9, 2020 4:21 pmEngineer and physicist Ricardo Rodrigues was the designer of Sirius, the most complex and versatile research instrument ever built in Brazil
An anthropologist of violence
November 9, 2020 4:21 pmAlba Zaluar, a pioneer in crime and social policy studies, dies at 77
Cameras in the operating room
November 9, 2020 4:21 pmPhotographer and filmmaker Benedito Duarte has produced around 500 documentaries on medical activities and research in São Paulo
A feast for historians
November 9, 2020 4:19 pmNew studies help to explain how changing eating habits shaped culture and the economy in São Paulo and Recife
Adrian Lavalle: The exercise of democracy
November 9, 2020 4:19 pmA study on non-electoral control mechanisms reveals the innovative character of the Brazilian experience
A look at the United States
November 9, 2020 4:18 pmEleven years after its establishment, a research institute focuses on systematizing knowledge about the most powerful country on the planet
Innovation at atomic scale
November 9, 2020 4:15 pmPesquisa FAPESP has closely followed developments in the field of nanotechnology
Going global
November 9, 2020 4:13 pmConceived at a São Paulo university, a company specializing in nanotechnological solutions looks to go international
The fintech wave
November 9, 2020 4:07 pmFinancial technology startups are becoming mainstream and disrupting the banking industry
Germanium energy
November 9, 2020 4:00 pmNew material could increase the durability and safety of lithium batteries
The last of the Tupiniquim
November 9, 2020 3:57 pmIndigenous people from Espírito Santo reached the Brazilian coastline 1,200 years ago and later met European colonizers during the Age of Discovery