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
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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
In order to understand Brazilian populations
May 31, 2019 5:56 pm Leave your thoughtsFrancisco Salzano bolstered genetic research of the country’s human populations
Science pioneer
May 31, 2019 5:56 pm Leave your thoughtsWarwick Kerr trained teams and directed research institutions, and was always attentive to the use of scientific knowledge
Paths of reconstruction
May 31, 2019 5:56 pm Leave your thoughtsUNESCO specialists will help Brazil rebuild the São Cristóvão Palace using modern security techniques
In memoriam
May 31, 2019 5:55 pm Leave your thoughtsThe National Museum's Historical Archives, which were consumed by the fire, will be reconstituted based on records made over the years on a variety of media
The hidden lives of museum collections
May 31, 2019 5:55 pm Leave your thoughtsPreservation of museum collections involves complex work and multidisciplinary teams
Brother in the North
May 31, 2019 5:54 pm Leave your thoughtsEmílio Goeldi Museum of Pará reaches 152nd anniversary with 4.5 million items preserved, but few protected
The roots of knowledge
May 31, 2019 5:54 pm Leave your thoughtsInstalled a decade ago in its own building at Quinta da Boa Vista, the herbarium survived intact
Saved fauna
May 31, 2019 5:53 pm Leave your thoughtsThe National Museum and USP Zoology Museum hold vast animal collections that can be difficult to preserve
The ruins of rare stones
May 31, 2019 5:43 pm Leave your thoughtsThe geology and paleontology collection at the National Museum contained 70,000 pieces, such as meteorites, unique pterosaurs, and mineral specimens from the Portuguese royal family
Niède Guidon: “I’m going to open the Museum of Nature and then I will rest”
May 31, 2019 5:42 pm Leave your thoughtsAfter four decades in the Serra da Capivara, the archaeologist confirms that she will leave Piauí after the opening of the new exhibition space
A new window on the sertão
May 31, 2019 5:42 pm Leave your thoughtsThe foundation created by archaeologist Niède Guidon is set to inaugurate its Museum of Nature in December at Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí
Prehistory in pieces
May 31, 2019 5:41 pm Leave your thoughtsThe skull of Luzia and a 2,800-year-old Egyptian mummy were among the more than 100,000 items in the archaeology and biological anthropology collections
Rebuilding heritage
May 31, 2019 5:41 pm Leave your thoughtsPartnerships with indigenous peoples and community associations will be decisive to the restoration of ethnographic and linguistic collections
Studies in jeopardy
May 31, 2019 5:35 pm Leave your thoughtsFire affects six of the institution’s graduate programs, of which two are world-class
Memories indelible by fire
May 31, 2019 5:33 pm Leave your thoughtsFor 200 years, the National Museum contributed knowledge in the natural sciences and inspired the creation of several other science museums
Centers for generating knowledge
May 31, 2019 5:32 pm Leave your thoughtsUniversity museums organize exhibitions, administer graduate programs, and do research
Strategies to keep museums healthy
May 31, 2019 5:31 pm Leave your thoughtsFinancial sustainability and flexible management are challenges facing museum managers
Dashed hopes
May 31, 2019 5:28 pm Leave your thoughtsThe National Museum was preparing for a revitalization project when it was obliterated by fire