Number of large animals continues to fall
July 16, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsThe number of large wild animals on the planet is decreasing as a result of various human activities,
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2019 Péter Murányi Prize Winners
July 16, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Péter Murányi Foundation awarded its top prize for 2019 to the SOS Chuva mobile app
The death of the Opportunity Mars rover
July 16, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsOne of NASA's longest and most successful interplanetary exploration missions ended after nearly 15 years of service
Drug program reduces deaths
July 16, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsA federal program designed to provide greater access to drugs that combat chronic disease has significantly reduced deaths and hospitalizations associated with hypertension and diabetes
Megamonuments may have originated in France
July 16, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsArchaeologist concluded that the first structures of Stonehenge were created roughly 6,500 years ago in what is now Brittany, northwest France
A fabric that keeps you cool in the heat and warm in the cold
July 16, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsA high-tech fabric is capable of altering its structure depending on heat and humidity, thus helping to maintain a stable body temperature
The wandering North Pole
July 16, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsThe North Magnetic Pole has been moving faster than expected from Canada toward Siberia, Russia, in recent years
Bees capable of adding and subtracting
July 16, 2019 3:02 pm Leave your thoughtsApis mellifera bees can learn to recognize quantities
Light Brazilian earthquakes
July 16, 2019 3:01 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazil experiences earthquakes of a low to medium magnitude, similar to those of central-eastern USA and the interior of Australia
Rare Cuban flora
July 16, 2019 3:01 pm Leave your thoughtsThe 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
Controversial airport on sacred Incan land
July 16, 2019 3:01 pm Leave your thoughtsThe recently started construction of an international airport in Chinchero, southeastern Peru, has raised concerns about potential damage to archaeological sites in the region
Women earning PhDs in Brazil
July 16, 2019 2:59 pm Leave your thoughtsA total of 21,591 researchers received PhDs in Brazil in 2017
Inappropriate reviewer behavior
July 16, 2019 2:58 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Oxford University Press journal Bioinformatics recently published a case study on misconduct in the peer review process
The American connection
July 16, 2019 2:58 pm Leave your thoughtsThe controversial baby gene-editing experiment performed in China may have directly involved a scientist from the USA
An algorithm for evaluating research credibility
July 16, 2019 2:57 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Pentagon wants to develop a tool capable of identifying whether social and behavioral science research results are credible
Complex mechanisms
July 16, 2019 2:57 pm Leave your thoughtsPublicly funded education in Brazil is a complex institutional system. The 1988 Constitution states that the process should be jointly... View Article
Rare white cougar captured on camera
July 16, 2019 2:57 pm Leave your thoughtsHidden 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
The Russian who dreams of changing health in Brazil
July 15, 2019 5:07 pm Leave your thoughtsEconomist finds business support and methodologies in science
Risks to academic liberty
July 15, 2019 5:06 pm Leave your thoughtsAt least 79 academics around the world violently attacked or killed in less than a year
The other evolutionist
July 15, 2019 5:05 pm Leave your thoughtsAlfred Wallace, a lesser-known contributor to the theory of evolution, explored the Amazon between 1848 and 1852, where he collected specimens, wrote, and sketched
Avant-garde sociologist
July 15, 2019 5:05 pm Leave your thoughtsMaria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz is remembered for her capacity to reflect on little-known aspects of the country, such as messianic movements
Breaking barriers
July 15, 2019 5:05 pm Leave your thoughtsOne of the pioneers of the study of particles, Elisa Frota-Pessôa participated in the founding of CBPF
Shelves of hidden treasure
July 15, 2019 5:04 pm Leave your thoughtsCollections of rare works in Brazil demand protection and promise new discoveries
Yanomami Expression
July 15, 2019 5:04 pm Leave your thoughtsClaudia Andujar exhibit on daily life in the Amazon forest brings together not only photos, but drawings done by the local indigenous peoples in the 1970s
Global health in motion
July 15, 2019 5:04 pm Leave your thoughtsA multidisciplinary team reviews the scientific evidence and challenges stereotypes regarding health and migration
Global innovation
July 15, 2019 5:04 pm Leave your thoughtsData shared across 53 R&D centers helps agricultural machinery manufacturer CNH Industrial develop solutions tailored to local needs
Healing citrus groves
July 15, 2019 5:03 pm Leave your thoughtsStartup incubated at Campinas Institute of Agriculture launches innovative treatment for citrus disease
The advancement of 3D printing
July 15, 2019 5:03 pm Leave your thoughtsHealth and industry applications drive this additive manufacturing technique to grow 25% per year
A world on the edge of the solar system
July 15, 2019 5:02 pm Leave your thoughtsAstronomers gather more evidence of another planet beyond Neptune
Microorganisms of flavor
July 15, 2019 5:01 pm Leave your thoughtsStudy identifies the bacteria that give 11 types of Brazilian artisan cheese their distinctive traits