Renewing the fleet
June 24, 2019 4:11 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Navy launches the Riachuelo, the first of five submarines that will set a new technological benchmark for the Brazilian naval industry
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A face in the crowd
June 24, 2019 4:07 pm Leave your thoughtsFacial recognition systems are becoming increasingly popular in Brazil and are already in use to prevent fraud, identify university exam participants, monitor travelers, and check in air passengers
Brazilian technology at the Pentagon
June 24, 2019 4:07 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian identification systems company Griaule has won two contracts in the United States worth a total of US$82.5 million—one with the Department of Defense
Unusual Stars
June 24, 2019 4:06 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers puzzled by recent discoveries of stars with variable brightness
The progressive destruction of Brazilian beaches
June 24, 2019 4:06 pm Leave your thoughtsLoss or accumulation of sand and mud has altered 60% of the Brazilian coastline
Green, yellow, or red
June 24, 2019 4:04 pm Leave your thoughtsBioluminescence research sheds new light on the mechanisms behind firefly colors
The fragile DNA of sharks
June 24, 2019 4:03 pm Leave your thoughtsOverfishing could further decrease the naturally low genetic diversity of some commercially valuable species
Searching for rare diseases
June 24, 2019 4:03 pm Leave your thoughtsNumber of Brazilians diagnosed with uncommon genetic pathologies increases 150% in four years
Doubling the effort against cancer
June 24, 2019 3:57 pm Leave your thoughtsHospitals such as ICESP and A.C.Camargo combine basic research with applied research in the search for better treatments for tumors
Magdalena Skipper : In the editor’s office
June 24, 2019 3:55 pm Leave your thoughtsNew editor in chief of Nature talks about the challenge of overcoming the reproducibility crisis and the rise of open access
Support for innovative research in Ceará
June 24, 2019 3:42 pm Leave your thoughtsState creates mechanisms for funding corporate projects, despite the economic crisis
Out of the comfort zone
June 24, 2019 3:42 pm Leave your thoughtsIPEA study finds tax incentives have failed to boost private R&D investment in Brazil in recent years
A center for safeguarding health in the Amazon
June 24, 2019 3:39 pm Leave your thoughtsFounded in 1936, the Evandro Chagas Institute produces world-leading research on infectious and parasitic diseases and environmental issues
Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos: The return of yellow fever and Zika
June 24, 2019 3:38 pm Leave your thoughtsDiscoverer of more than 100 species of viruses in the Amazon, the virologist from the state of Pará says it's just a matter of time before there are new outbreaks of the two diseases
Funding for scientific research
June 24, 2019 3:21 pm Leave your thoughtsThe way in which the Federal Constitution would consider the allocation of resources for science and technology mobilized the scientific community from the beginning of the constituent process
The challenges of universalizing healthcare
June 24, 2019 3:21 pm Leave your thoughtsPrior to the creation of the Unified Health System (SUS), only workers with formal employment and no debt owing to Social Security were entitled to publicly funded medical care
Architecture of the Constitution
June 24, 2019 3:20 pm Leave your thoughtsThree decades after its ratification, a scientific study reveals the uniqueness of the federal Constitution's construction and evidence of pioneering spirit in its codification of citizens' rights
Orangutan mother alerts infant of danger after spotting a “tiger”
June 24, 2019 3:18 pm Leave your thoughtsPrimate makes a noise that sounds like a kiss to warn its offspring
Richard Feynman’s medal sold at auction
June 24, 2019 3:18 pm Leave your thoughtsThe medal was just one of the items up for sale in Sotheby's History of Science and Technology auction
Europe streamlines project approval
June 24, 2019 3:18 pm Leave your thoughtsThe European Union has adopted a series of measures to simplify the process of requesting scientific funding under the Horizon 2020 program
First Sirius beamlines expected to begin operating by the end of 2019
June 24, 2019 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThe electron beam is expected to start circulating in the second half of 2019 and the six initial experimental stations, called beamlines
Termite mounds in the Caatinga occupy an area larger than Great Britain
June 24, 2019 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsMurundus are up to 9 m in diameter, and occupy an area of approximately 230,000 km2 and were formed between 690 and 3,820 years ago
Bones of “disappeared” politician identified
June 24, 2019 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThe bones belonged to Aluísio Palhano Pedreira Ferreira, a trade union leader from Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Popular Revolutionary Vanguard
Half of the world’s annual rain falls in 12 days
June 24, 2019 3:16 pm Leave your thoughtsApproximately 75% of annual rainfall falls on the 30 wettest days of the year
Looking deep into Mars
June 24, 2019 3:16 pm Leave your thoughtsAlmost six months after leaving Earth, NASA's InSight probe landed safely in Elysium Planitia, in the equatorial region of Mars
More water dragged into the interior of the earth
June 24, 2019 3:14 pm Leave your thoughtsSlow collisions of tectonic plates beneath the ocean may be dragging three times as much water into the earth's interior as previously predicted
225-million-year-old long-necked dinosaurs
June 24, 2019 3:13 pm Leave your thoughtsThe fossils of three specimens of a new genus and species of herbivorous dinosaur have been found in the state of Rio Grande do Sul
New standard approved for measuring a kilogram
June 24, 2019 3:13 pm Leave your thoughtsThe kilogram will now be measured using the Planck constant
Chinese scientist who claims to have created gene-edited babies suspended
June 24, 2019 3:13 pm Leave your thoughtsHe Jiankui claims to have altered genes using DNA editing technique
Public education funding
June 24, 2019 3:08 pm Leave your thoughtsMost federal funds are used for basic education via the Basic Education Maintenance and Development Fund and other programs