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September 11, 2018 3:19 pm Leave your thoughtsHackerspaces—locations that bring technology aficionados together—are multiplying across the country
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Zika against cancer
September 11, 2018 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Zika virus is being tested as a tool for treating aggressive tumors of the central nervous system
A barrier against HIV
September 11, 2018 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsNew medication to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus is adopted and evaluated in Brazil
Hidden incidence
September 11, 2018 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsCases of Hansen’s disease in children in the Amazon suggest that available figures underestimate the disease
Creative turbulence
September 11, 2018 3:16 pm Leave your thoughtsStimulating random fluctuations may increase energy production in nuclear fusion reactors
The rain that united two forests
September 11, 2018 3:16 pm Leave your thoughtsPeriods of heavy rainfall between 120,000 and 12,000 years ago may have connected the Atlantic Forest to the Amazon
The Metamorphoses of the Atlantic Forest
September 11, 2018 3:13 pm Leave your thoughtsSurvey of 2,000 species shows a predominance of small animals and resistance to forest fragmentation
Cristiana Simão Seixas: How to measure the value of nature
September 11, 2018 3:07 pm Leave your thoughtsBiologist who coordinated assessment of biodiversity in the Americas shares strategies to slow down losses
A strategy for research data
September 11, 2018 3:03 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers are being encouraged to better manage and share the data they produce
The battle for quality
September 11, 2018 3:01 pm Leave your thoughtsCompanies and universities discuss strategies for improving engineering education
Bernardete Angelina Gatti: Toward better teacher education policy
September 11, 2018 2:57 pm Leave your thoughtsA researcher discusses barriers and challenges in training new educators
More people in the rainforest
September 11, 2018 2:48 pm Leave your thoughtsNew archaeological sites and evidence of plant domestication support the idea that pre-Columbian Amazonia was densely populated
CONPRESP protects USP buildings
September 11, 2018 2:43 pm Leave your thoughtsThe São Paulo Council for the Preservation of Historical, Cultural, and Environmental Heritage registered four more University of São Paulo buildings
The isolated jaguars of Espírito Santo State
September 11, 2018 2:43 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers tries to to learn more about the largest feline on the continent, the jaguar
Molecule created in a laboratory
September 11, 2018 2:42 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers used laser beams to bump two atoms together, creating a molecule
A swarm of black holes
September 11, 2018 2:42 pm Leave your thoughtsAstrophysicists have discovered a dozen stellar-mass black holes (some larger than the Sun) in the center of the Milky Way
Fishing scenes in the Atacama
September 11, 2018 2:42 pm Leave your thoughtsThe people who inhabited the northern coast of Chile before European colonization may have been skilled fishermen and marine hunters
Caution with antibiotics and antacids
September 11, 2018 2:42 pm Leave your thoughtsAntibiotics and antacids can lead to the development of allergies later in life
Reducing household pollution
September 11, 2018 2:41 pm Leave your thoughtsA review article argues in favor of replacing household stoves that run on biofuel with ones that use liquefied petroleum gas
Data scientists reconstruct the rhetoric of the French Revolution
September 11, 2018 2:39 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers used data mining techniques to analyze transcripts of 40,000 speeches made at the National Constituent Assembly
New test for brucellosis
September 11, 2018 2:38 pm Leave your thoughtsCheese and milk produced without sanitary inspection can cause brucellosis
Sahara Desert grows by 10% in a century
September 11, 2018 2:38 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Sahara has grown by about 10% over the last century and today occupies an area of almost 7.4 million km2
Graduates in engineering and related fields
September 11, 2018 2:37 pm Leave your thoughtsEditor resigns after accusations of harassment
September 11, 2018 2:36 pm Leave your thoughtsThe American Journal of Political Science former editor William Jacoby resigned from his position amid allegations of sexual harassment
A network for reproducing scientific experiments
September 11, 2018 2:36 pm Leave your thoughtsA group of researchers are organizing a network of laboratories to repeat up to 100 biomedical experiments in order to verify the reproducibility of the results
Misconduct in proposal review process
September 11, 2018 2:35 pm Leave your thoughtsUS National Institutes of Health investigates suspected confidentiality breaches and reciprocal favors
Amazing Amazonia
September 11, 2018 2:34 pm Leave your thoughts“The abundance of scientific literature on the Amazon reflects the physical geography of the region: it is amazing, highly unusual,... View Article
Laser faucet
September 11, 2018 2:34 pm Leave your thoughtsSystem simulates how light travels through the icy clouds of interstellar media
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Diamonds in the sky
September 5, 2018 3:13 pm Leave your thoughtsTin oxide nanoparticles congregate in a cohesive circle, taking on the appearance of a volcan