The curious creatures of Frans Post
February 25, 2019 7:26 pm Leave your thoughtsExhibition in an Irish museum brings together artwork of Brazilian fauna created by the Dutch artist in the seventeenth century
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Films in school
February 25, 2019 7:26 pm Leave your thoughtsThe National Institute of Educational Filmmaking played a fundamental role in science instruction and dissemination in Brazil
The search for open spaces
February 25, 2019 7:26 pm Leave your thoughtsRecent urban development has been marked by contradictions around the use of open areas
Automated farming
February 25, 2019 7:24 pm Leave your thoughtsMáquinas Agrícolas Jacto boasts 383 patent applications and is among the global pioneers of driverless farming technology
Antonio Carlos Rossini Jr.: Betting on connected environments
February 25, 2019 7:24 pm Leave your thoughtsAn engineer talks about the expansion of the Internet of Things in Brazil and the trajectory of one of the first Brazilian startups focusing on this ecosystem
Automation in law
February 25, 2019 7:24 pm Leave your thoughtsA new type of startup known as legaltechs is developing technological systems for the legal field
In search of new audiences
February 25, 2019 7:23 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian science association targets young people, liberal professionals, and businesses in an effort to extend their social reach
Signs of new worlds
February 25, 2019 7:23 pm Leave your thoughtsGravitational waves could be used to detect exoplanets in close orbit around their parent star
Sources of methane under the sea
February 25, 2019 7:23 pm Leave your thoughtsTwo thousand craters releasing greenhouse gas found off the Brazilian coast
Early-term births on the rise
February 25, 2019 7:22 pm Leave your thoughtsIn 2015, 40% of babies were born before reaching biological maturity, partly because of elective cesarean sections
A theory in motion
February 25, 2019 7:18 pm Leave your thoughtsResearch that looks beyond the gene suggests new directions for understanding how species diversify
A wider target audience
February 25, 2019 7:05 pm Leave your thoughtsMajor publisher’s acquisition of manuscript submission system makes waves in scientific journals market
Life goes on
February 25, 2019 7:05 pm Leave your thoughtsEnvironmental legislation helps reconnect Atlantic Forest fragments in agricultural regions across Brazil
Reaping dividends
February 25, 2019 7:05 pm Leave your thoughtsInvestment in research has increased farm productivity in São Paulo and generated economic returns for the state
Antonio Sérgio Petrilli: A multifaceted physician
February 25, 2019 7:02 pm Leave your thoughtsPediatric oncologist Antonio Sérgio Petrilli describes how he built and now runs one of Brazil’s leading centers for research and treatment of childhood cancer
Pesticides in the balance
February 25, 2019 5:18 pm Leave your thoughtsDebate stirs over proposed regulations on pesticides—the mainstay of large-scale farming but a hazard to the environment and the health of rural communities
Neanderthal mother, Denisovan father
February 25, 2019 5:12 pm Leave your thoughtsA 13-year-old girl who lived 90,000 years ago in what is now southwestern Siberia is the first described case of a direct descendant of two distinct archaic human groups
Continuous expansion of the Amazon River
February 25, 2019 5:12 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Amazon River is still expanding as it captures water from the Orinoco River, which flows through Colombia and Venezuela
The evolution of painting according to physics
February 25, 2019 5:12 pm Leave your thoughtsA computer algorithm has provided a numerical quantification of the changing visual characteristics in paintings over the last thousand years
When visiting the Atacama Desert, use sunscreen
February 25, 2019 5:11 pm Leave your thoughtsUltraviolet radiation in the Atacama Desert is higher than anywhere else on Earth
The quest for a universal flu vaccine
February 25, 2019 5:11 pm Leave your thoughtsSections of DNA are equal across all strains of the virus, making them good candidates for a potential vaccine against all varieties of influenza
US investment in research grows in 2017
February 25, 2019 5:11 pm Leave your thoughtsIn 2017, the United States government invested US$118.3 billion in research and development
The oldest library in Germany
February 25, 2019 5:11 pm Leave your thoughtsConstruction works on a church community center have revealed the ruins of a Roman library in the city of Cologne, Germany
A new chapter in Earth’s history
February 25, 2019 5:11 pm Leave your thoughtsThe proposal approved by the IUGS divides the Holocene into three ages: the Greenlandian, Northgrippian, and Meghalayan
The Geoffroy’s cat and its behavior
February 25, 2019 5:08 pm Leave your thoughtsBiologists monitored a population of Geoffroy's cats (Leopardus geoffroyi) in the Caverá mountains
Alcohol consumption and health risks
February 25, 2019 5:08 pm Leave your thoughtsAlcohol consumption is the leading cause of health problems in people aged 15–49
Pain neurons grown in a laboratory
February 25, 2019 5:08 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian researchers have developed human sensory neurons in a laboratory for the first time
Patent filings increase and industry shows weakness
February 25, 2019 5:07 pm Leave your thoughtsIn 2017, residents of Brazil filed 5,480 patents at the Brazilian National Institute of Intellectual Property
Inappropriate relationships
February 25, 2019 5:07 pm Leave your thoughtsUniversities Australia has released a document aimed at master's and PhD supervisors and students
When recklessness becomes misconduct
February 25, 2019 5:07 pm Leave your thoughtsAn american neuroscientist dismissed for misconduct in 2012 by Wayne State University has managed to partially overturn his 10-year ban on federal research funding handed down by the US ORI