Habitual fraud
May 31, 2019 4:58 pm Leave your thoughtsJapanese researchers lead the list of scientists with the highest number of retracted articles
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The role of museums
May 31, 2019 4:57 pm Leave your thoughtsImages of the Brazilian National Museum in flames shocked the world. The 200-year-old institution, based in a former imperial palace,... View Article
Pre-Columbian Culture
May 31, 2019 3:18 pm Leave your thoughtsFragments of ceramic figures indicate that at the time there was a cultural connection between peoples across South America
The eclipse which revolutionized physics
May 27, 2019 4:39 pm Leave your thoughtsThis Wednesday, May 29th, celebrates 100 years of the eclipse which was the first experimental proof of the Theory of General Relativity | 2'36"
Dispersal by water
April 30, 2019 6:38 pm Leave your thoughtsThe piraputanga is pictured snagging a wild fig
Read the international issue
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A Swedish filmmaker in Copacabana
April 30, 2019 5:11 pm Leave your thoughtsResearch reveals the Brazilian dimension of the work of Arne Sucksdorff, best known for documentaries about nature
Science and video games
April 30, 2019 5:09 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers discover new uses for computer games
Entry strategy
April 30, 2019 5:09 pm Leave your thoughtsIn less than a decade, new dynamics in migration flows and key features of legislation have led to a 34-fold increase in requests for asylum in Brazil
The (almost) unknown Villa-Lobos
April 30, 2019 5:00 pm Leave your thoughtsAnalysis of his musical oeuvre, particularly the symphonies, reveals the Brazilian composer’s com-plex creative process
High-level delivery
April 30, 2019 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsAkaer Group is poised to become a global provider of aerospace systems and components
A blimp over the forest
April 30, 2019 4:53 pm Leave your thoughtsA pilotless aircraft built in Brazil will monitor environmental reserves in the Amazon
A more efficient jet
April 30, 2019 4:47 pm Leave your thoughtsEmbraer’s new aircraft delivered better-than-expected performance in certification tests
The land of the unicorns
April 30, 2019 4:43 pm Leave your thoughtsFirst billion-dollar startups begin to emerge in Brazil
A world that is controlled by algorithms
April 30, 2019 4:42 pm Leave your thoughtsLogical computer systems have a growing impact on everyday life
Frozen light
April 30, 2019 4:39 pm Leave your thoughtsTheoretical study proposes a new way of stopping light
Creative turbulence
April 30, 2019 4:36 pm Leave your thoughtsStimulating random fluctuations may increase energy production in nuclear fusion reactors
Robert Shelton: Partnership between giants
April 30, 2019 4:31 pm Leave your thoughtsPresident of the GMT telescope explains why he joined with competitor TMT to secure funding from the National Science Foundation
Male or female?
April 30, 2019 4:24 pm Leave your thoughtsThe mystery unfolds Amazonian frog species has more sex chromosomes than any other vertebrate
Contamination beyond the mines
April 30, 2019 4:11 pm Leave your thoughtsAreas of the Amazon flooded by dams may lead to an increase of the mercury levels in fish consumed by local residents
Underwater Forest
April 30, 2019 4:06 pm Leave your thoughtsCoral reefs at the mouth of the Amazon River may be larger, deeper, and more complex than expected
A parasite reaches the big city
April 30, 2019 4:01 pm Leave your thoughtsDifficult diagnosis and a warmer climate facilitate the advance of visceral leishmaniasis toward large urban centers
On the frontiers of ethanol made from sugarcane
April 30, 2019 3:59 pm Leave your thoughtsProject outlines scenarios to increase biofuel production in Africa and Latin America
Closer links with industry
April 30, 2019 3:58 pm Leave your thoughtsUNICAMP is Brazil’s highest ranked university for patent applications, and USP is highest ranked for licensing royalties
Precocious entrepreneurs
April 30, 2019 3:44 pm Leave your thoughtsOECD study places Brazil among the countries with the largest number of startups founded by students or recent graduates
A strategy for research data
April 30, 2019 3:42 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers are being encouraged to better manage and share the data they produce
Edgar Dutra Zanotto: One eye on science, the other on industry
April 30, 2019 3:39 pm Leave your thoughtsAn engineer provides insight into how artificial intelligence will help develop novel types of glass and explains his new definition of the material
Elisa Pereira Reis: A pioneering look at social inequality
April 30, 2019 3:36 pm Leave your thoughtsA researcher of the ruling elite advocates for the continued development of comparative studies to gain a better understanding of social phenomena
The race for the best light
April 30, 2019 3:21 pm Leave your thoughtsSirius will compete with a fourth-generation facility inaugurated in 2016 in Sweden and another planned to begin operating in 2020 in France
Leaping towards brilliance
April 30, 2019 3:16 pm Leave your thoughtsIn its final stage of construction, the latest-generation synchrotron light source could elevate the quality of Brazilian research