Academic transparency
December 11, 2019 5:51 pm Leave your thoughtsRésumés should always be checked to ensure accuracy and consistency
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An ecologist in the New World
December 11, 2019 5:50 pm Leave your thoughtsNaturalist Alexander von Humboldt explored the Americas in the early nineteenth century and alerted the world to human impact on the environment
Much more than a photographer
December 11, 2019 5:49 pm Leave your thoughtsA retrospective on Marc Ferrez brings to light his dialogue with science and expands knowledge of his work
Enhanced treatment
December 11, 2019 5:49 pm Leave your thoughtsStudies identify new evidence that cash transfer programs help fight tuberculosis in Brazil
Disarming Violence
December 11, 2019 5:49 pm Leave your thoughtsCurbing Brazil’s homicide epidemic hinges on restricting access to firearms, fresh research suggests
Cleaner flight
December 11, 2019 5:48 pm Leave your thoughtsEmbraer and WEG team up to develop electric propulsion systems for aviation
Lab-grown beef
December 11, 2019 5:48 pm Leave your thoughtsResearch into meat made from plants or animal cells with the same taste, smell, and texture as traditional beef is advancing quickly
The unexpected power of friction
December 11, 2019 5:47 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian and German scientists explain unexpected motion of barrel in explosive ping-pong ball experiment
Environmental acoustics
December 11, 2019 5:46 pm Leave your thoughtsAudio recordings are used to profile ecosystems and identify changes caused by humans
Scattered ancestry
December 11, 2019 5:46 pm Leave your thoughtsMestizos from Brazil's southern states have more Amerindian DNA lineage than modern-day indigenous groups in the region.
A new form of dementia
December 11, 2019 5:46 pm Leave your thoughtsConfused with Alzheimer’s, LATE appears with greater frequency in octogenarians
Kissing bugs have arrived in Greater São Paulo
December 11, 2019 5:46 pm Leave your thoughtsSince 2015, more than 100 insects have been captured, 30% of them infected with the protozoan that causes Chagas disease
Fattening foods
December 11, 2019 5:46 pm Leave your thoughtsNew evidence links ultra-processed foods to weight gain
Youngsuk Chi: Sustainable transition
December 11, 2019 5:38 pm Leave your thoughtsFor the president of Elsevier, Plan S is viable, but only over the long term
A test-tube mirage
December 11, 2019 5:38 pm Leave your thoughtsFailed cold fusion experiment attempted 30 years ago showed how illusory discoveries trigger self-correcting mechanisms in science
New life for the Ipiranga Museum
December 11, 2019 5:38 pm Leave your thoughtsWith support from public and private companies, construction to restore and modernize the monumental building begins in September
Tools for planning the future
December 11, 2019 5:38 pm Leave your thoughtsStability in funding at state universities in São Paulo allowed for continual education about financial management
Silvia Pimentel: Women’s rights
December 11, 2019 5:38 pm Leave your thoughtsThe lawyer who chaired the most important international committee for the defense of women’s rights speaks about the more than four decades she spent in teaching, research, and activism
Reuse, replace, degrade
December 11, 2019 5:31 pm Leave your thoughtsExperts call for multiple strategies to tackle plastic pollution
The threat of microplastics
December 11, 2019 5:31 pm Leave your thoughtsTiny plastic fragments are everywhere and removing them poses a major challenge
Plastic Planet
December 11, 2019 5:30 pm Leave your thoughtsInvented a century ago, the polymeric material that at first seemed to make modern life so much easier has now become a major environmental problem
Changes in primate culture
December 11, 2019 5:30 pm Leave your thoughtsCapuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) living in Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí 3,000 years ago knew how to break and crush fruits and seeds using stones
China ahead of the USA
December 11, 2019 5:30 pm Leave your thoughtsIn 2017, the Scopus database recorded 456,960 articles, books, and conference proceedings produced by China, accounting for 18.9% of global scientific output
Climate change and the Amazon
December 11, 2019 5:30 pm Leave your thoughtsClimate change could become the primary threat to the Amazon rainforest in the coming decades, contributing to a significant decline in tree diversity in the region by 2050
Incans charged agricultural tax
December 11, 2019 5:30 pm Leave your thoughtsA specific type of quipu may be the first evidence that taxes were collected by the ancient Incan empire
Giants with their own light source
December 11, 2019 5:30 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers have now isolated the substances involved in Dosidicus gigas bioluminescence
Endowment fund veto overturned
December 11, 2019 5:29 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian Congress rescinded a veto by President Jair Bolsonaro that prevented foundations that fund public universities from acting as managers of philanthropic funds known as endowment funds
Mystery on the Moon
December 11, 2019 5:29 pm Leave your thoughtsNear the South Pole of the Moon, on the side not seen from Earth, there is a crater of colossal proportions
Refugees better educated than the average Brazilian
December 11, 2019 5:29 pm Leave your thoughtsMost refugees arriving in Brazil have a high-school diploma (while one-third have a degree) and are working
Jean Purdy’s overlooked contribution to IVF
December 11, 2019 5:29 pm Leave your thoughtsBritish nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy made a decisive contribution to the development of in vitro fertilization