First items salvaged
June 18, 2019 5:20 pm Leave your thoughtsA rare meteorite and fragments of Brazil’s most ancient human fossil have been found in the rubble of the National Museum
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New origins
June 18, 2019 5:20 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian versions of the Charles Darwin classic puts into context the development of evolution theory
Misleading similarities between species
June 18, 2019 5:18 pm Leave your thoughtsAnimals and plants that share a great likeness do not always have similar evolutionary histories
When indigenous people occupied Lagoa Santa
June 18, 2019 5:15 pm Leave your thoughtsAncient DNA reveals rapid human colonization of South America 14,000 years ago
Floating laboratory
June 18, 2019 5:12 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian Navy survey vessel to receive R$75 million in funding under new agreement
2017 Report
June 18, 2019 5:08 pm Leave your thoughtsActivities Report shows that FAPESP increased funding for innovative research and business partnerships
A Babel of startups
June 18, 2019 5:05 pm Leave your thoughtsA startup support program in Santiago, Chile, is attracting entrepreneurs from around the world
Reap what you sow
June 18, 2019 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsWith ambitions to quadruple capital invested, São Paulo investment fund backs 20 innovative companies
Hotter and drier cities
June 18, 2019 4:52 pm Leave your thoughtsModeling indicates temperatures will rise and rainfall will be halved in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Santos by the end of the century
José Antonio Marengo Orsini: A time of uncertainty
June 18, 2019 4:51 pm Leave your thoughtsClimatologist says society can perceive climate change but has difficulty adopting adaptive measures
Before memory loss
June 18, 2019 4:46 pm Leave your thoughtsPsychiatric problems may be the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease
Understanding extreme storms
June 18, 2019 4:45 pm Leave your thoughtsSome of the strongest and most devastating storms on the planet are formed in a wide strip of the Pampas region in the north of Argentina
Dutch court orders government to cut greenhouse gases
June 18, 2019 4:44 pm Leave your thoughtsAn appeals court in the Netherlands ruled that the government must accelerate its plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The first colossuses in the Cosmos
June 18, 2019 4:44 pm Leave your thoughtsTwo recent findings, however, suggest that some colossal systems already existed at 13.8 billion years ago
Evidence that Da Vinci had strabismus
June 18, 2019 4:42 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Mona Lisa painter had strabismus and may have known how to use it to his advantage
China closing in on the USA
June 18, 2019 4:41 pm Leave your thoughtsUS$254 billion was the approximate value invested in R&D activities by China in 2017
The gregarious habits of an herbivorous reptile
June 18, 2019 4:41 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul found an assemblage of fossils from at least six different Dinodontosaurus individuals
Potential sylvatic cycle of Zika in Brazil
June 18, 2019 4:41 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian researchers have identified the Zika virus in the carcasses of monkeys found in the interior of São Paulo State and in Minas Gerais
Online tool tries to identify fake news
June 18, 2019 4:40 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers are developing a tool for verifying whether articles shared on the internet or through instant messaging apps are real or fake
The origin of chocolate and camouflaged fungus
June 18, 2019 4:39 pm Leave your thoughtsArtifacts that belonged to native Americans between 5,300 and 2,100 years ago hold the earliest evidence of the domestication and use of cacao
Homage to Henrietta Lacks and her cells
June 18, 2019 4:39 pm Leave your thoughtsJohns Hopkins University, USA, is to name a new ethics research building in honor of Henrietta Lacks
Hope for the Atlantic Forest
June 18, 2019 4:38 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Atlantic Forest covers 28% of the area it occupied before European colonization
Young adults
June 18, 2019 4:35 pm Leave your thoughtsStudents, workers, and those who neither study nor work
Controversial list
June 18, 2019 4:34 pm Leave your thoughtsSectors of China's scientific community have criticized the government's proposal to create a national blacklist of poor-quality academic journals
Fraud casts a shadow over stem cell research
June 18, 2019 4:34 pm Leave your thoughtsThe National Institutes of Health has instructed researchers to temporarily suspend stem cell therapy trials in heart failure patients
The weight of Justice
June 18, 2019 4:33 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers debate whether scientific misconduct should be treated as a crime
Advances in Alzheimer’s research
June 18, 2019 4:32 pm Leave your thoughtsOne of the benefits of the University of São Paulo’s link with the city of São Paulo’s postmortem investigation service... View Article
Magnetic circles
June 18, 2019 4:32 pm Leave your thoughtsLED light strips, a cylindrical magnet, and a thin film of ferrofluid is the recipe for the diffraction effect in which the colored lights form circles
From litter to literature
May 31, 2019 5:57 pm Leave your thoughtsAfter spending his childhood working in a landfill, Dorival dos Santos Filho concludes his doctorate in linguistics
Showcasing yourself as a scientist
May 31, 2019 5:57 pm Leave your thoughtsMarket analysis can help researchers create a strong academic résumé, increasing research opportunities