Tax Law for Cancer
January 17, 2019 5:00 pm Leave your thoughtsProgram receives more tax-exemption funds for treatment than for research into the disease
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Patent War
January 17, 2019 5:00 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers locked in legal battle for property rights linked to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool
Closer links with industry
January 17, 2019 5:00 pm Leave your thoughtsUNICAMP is Brazil’s highest-ranked university for patent applications, and USP for licensing royalties
Cartoon Science
January 17, 2019 5:00 pm Leave your thoughtsThe rising popularity of comic strips in science and research communication
Edgar Dutra Zanotto: One eye on science, the other on industry
January 17, 2019 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsEngineer provides insight into how artificial intelligence will help develop novel types of glass and explains his new definition of the material
The race for the best light
January 17, 2019 4:49 pm Leave your thoughtsSirius will compete with both a fourth-generation facility inaugurated in 2016 in Sweden, and another planned to begin operating in 2020 in France
Leaping towards brilliance
January 17, 2019 4:49 pm Leave your thoughtsNow in its final stage of construction, the latest-generation synchrotron light source could elevate the quality of Brazilian research
The mysterious death of the baobabs
January 17, 2019 4:43 pm Leave your thoughtsBetween 2005 and 2017, researchers conducted an extensive survey of the largest known baobab species
Missed education targets
January 17, 2019 4:43 pm Leave your thoughts70% of the goals set out by the National Education Plan for 2014–2017 were not achieved
Try not to complain that the days are too short
January 17, 2019 4:43 pm Leave your thoughtsSome 1.4 billion years ago, Earth rotated faster and the days were only 18 hours and 40 minutes long
Rice loses nutrients as CO2 increases
January 17, 2019 4:42 pm Leave your thoughtsRice could become less nutritious over the coming decades if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise
Bacteria hungry for cleaning products
January 17, 2019 4:42 pm Leave your thoughtsIn the laboratory, the bacteria grew and multiplied using ethyl alcohol as its main energy source
The most intense drought since the 1980s
January 17, 2019 4:42 pm Leave your thoughtsThe drought that hit Northeast Brazil from 2012 to 2017 was the longest, largest, and most intense that the region has seen since 1980
The effects of crotamine on metabolism
January 17, 2019 4:42 pm Leave your thoughtsA protein extracted from rattlesnake venom, presented three unexpected effects in recent tests on mice
The atheism of Fritz Müller
January 17, 2019 4:42 pm Leave your thoughtsIn 1848, naturalist Fritz Müller asked the University of Greifswald to excuse him from making the traditional oath to God during his graduation ceremony
Rare dinosaur sold for €1.13 million
January 17, 2019 4:39 pm Leave your thoughtsAn auction lead to a discussion about the recent trend of treating fossils as works of art
The indelible pigment of Brazilwood
January 17, 2019 4:39 pm Leave your thoughtsRaphael, Rembrandt, Pietro da Cortona, and Van Gogh all used paints containing red pigments from the bark of the brazilwood tree
The secret behind Pluto’s dunes
January 17, 2019 4:39 pm Leave your thoughtsAn international group of researchers seems to have found the explanation behind Pluto's dunes
Scientific publications by state and by collaboration
January 17, 2019 4:33 pm Leave your thoughts1 Publications includes “Articles,” “Proceedings Papers,” and “Reviews” from the Web of Science/Clarivate database with at least one author based... View Article
Fictitious author, false conclusions
January 17, 2019 4:26 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Indian Journal of Medical Ethics published an article with false conclusions and author
UNICAMP discusses gender discrimination and sexual violence
January 17, 2019 4:26 pm Leave your thoughtsA working group discuss gender discrimination, harassment, and sexual violence at the university
Addressing sexual harassment in academia
January 17, 2019 4:26 pm Leave your thoughtsReport proposes new strategies for protecting students and researchers from harassment and coercion
A new light for science
January 17, 2019 4:25 pm Leave your thoughtsIn certain fields, innovative scientific discoveries are increasingly reliant on large and often multinational facilities. These projects are frequently the... View Article
Dispersal by water
January 17, 2019 4:25 pm Leave your thoughtsBiologist José Sabino studies the role fish play in maintaining riparian forest ecosystems
For the survival of indigenous languages
December 11, 2018 6:08 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers seek to keep Brazilian native idioms from disappearing
Storing knowledge
November 27, 2018 4:20 pm Leave your thoughtsFelipe Francisco gave up his job as a shelf stacker to earn a PhD in biology
Broadening horizons
November 27, 2018 4:20 pm Leave your thoughtsStudents at public schools in Campinas given new opportunities by UNICAMP's ProFIS course
Knowing the earth, in depth
November 27, 2018 4:19 pm Leave your thoughtsThe search for oil contributed to the creation of the first geology courses in Brazil
A bridge to the world
November 27, 2018 4:18 pm Leave your thoughtsAlexandre Wollner introduced the modern concept of visual identity and helped to advance academic training in design in Brazil
Cradlesongs
November 27, 2018 4:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThe formal characteristics of lullabies help put infants to sleep and introduce them into their cultural and affective context