From the factory floor to the floor of Congress
September 5, 2018 3:12 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers review the history of the struggles of Brazil’s feminist movements
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A labyrinth of inconclusive decisions
September 5, 2018 3:12 pm Leave your thoughts86% of Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court decisions are responses to internal appeals
The Bororo on screen
September 5, 2018 3:11 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers suggest that a film made by the Rondon Commission in 1916 may have been the first ethnographic documentary
The reality emerging from an avalanche of data
September 5, 2018 3:11 pm Leave your thoughtsDigital humanities are spreading through a variety of disciplines, influencing the training of researchers and driving public policy
Wood identification
September 5, 2018 3:07 pm Leave your thoughtsComputer vision systems identify the quality of wood boards and their tree species
More resistant sugarcane fields
September 5, 2018 3:07 pm Leave your thoughtsA variety of genetically modified sugarcane developed by a company from Piracicaba is approved for planting
Green propulsion
September 5, 2018 3:05 pm Leave your thoughtsINPE and the Brazilian Air Force develop sustainable engine and fuel for use in rockets and satellites
When vacuum is hot
September 5, 2018 3:05 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian researchers propose an experiment to determine whether empty space can heat an accelerated object
Vestiges of primitive Earth
September 5, 2018 3:04 pm Leave your thoughtsThe depths of the Earth may contain rigid blocks spanning thousands of kilometers
Deep sea alliances
September 5, 2018 3:04 pm Leave your thoughtsSix species of cleaner fish from the Rocas Atoll obtain food by removing parasites from larger fish
Natural lighting
September 5, 2018 3:03 pm Leave your thoughtsThe chemical process underlying the bioluminescence of mushrooms is recyclable and flexible
Breaking boundaries
September 5, 2018 3:00 pm Leave your thoughtsReal-time genome sequencing reconstructs the trajectory of Zika virus across the Americas
Reversing Wasting Syndrome
September 5, 2018 2:58 pm Leave your thoughtsPhysical exercise can halt cachexia, the inflammation that induces unwanted weight loss and worsens cancer and other diseases
Sleeping Beauties
September 5, 2018 2:56 pm Leave your thoughtsTo study the scientific process and perfect evaluation systems, researchers analyze innovative papers whose value was recognized only belatedly
Reasons to award incentives
September 5, 2018 2:55 pm Leave your thoughtsThe IMF and the OECD suggest that governments provide tax incentives to encourage companies to conduct more research
Annual balance
September 5, 2018 2:53 pm Leave your thoughtsFAPESP continues its pace of investment according to the institution’s 2016 report
Maria Ligia Coelho Prado: Unanswered questions in Latin America
September 5, 2018 2:52 pm Leave your thoughtsThe historian talks about identity, wars of independence and interpretations of the region’s development
PIPE 20 years
September 5, 2018 2:51 pm Leave your thoughtsWith an innovation project contracted every business day, the FAPESP program gave a boost to more than 1,100 small and medium-sized technology companies
Identity and Zika in Latin America
September 5, 2018 2:51 pm Leave your thoughtsA pioneering program that supports technology companies in Brazil celebrated its 20th year in 2017. The Technological Innovation in Small... View Article
For a return to former glory
September 4, 2018 7:06 pm Leave your thoughtsAt its 200th anniversary, Brazil’s National Museum is looking to reclaim its important role in disseminating natural sciences in Brazil
Eduardo Góes Neves
September 4, 2018 2:25 pm Leave your thoughtsArchaeologist from MAE-USP summarizes his studies on how intense human occupation has shaped the Amazon forest
Understanding water shortage
August 29, 2018 5:56 pm Leave your thoughtsSpecialists discuss water resources and how to preserve them
Knowledge for all
August 6, 2018 1:39 pm Leave your thoughtsBiologist Filipe Oliveira took a break from his PhD in Finland to make science more accessible in Brazil
Accreditation in Brazil
August 6, 2018 1:39 pm Leave your thoughtsGraduate and postgraduate qualifications earned abroad need to be validated in Brazil
A time of chaos
August 6, 2018 1:38 pm Leave your thoughts100 years ago, Spanish flu wreaked havoc worldwide, killing 30 million people and 35,000 in Brazil alone
An ambivalent mayor
August 6, 2018 1:37 pm Leave your thoughtsA study suggests that Pereira Passos’s reform of downtown Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the previous century was designed to integrate, rather than exclude, the lower classes
Modernism revisited
August 6, 2018 1:37 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers rethink the São Paulo avant-garde movement's place in the Brazilian cultural scene
A leap into the unknown
August 6, 2018 1:32 pm Leave your thoughtsA leader in the generic segment, drugmaker EMS is now investing in radical innovation
The smaller the better
August 6, 2018 1:31 pm Leave your thoughtsNanoparticles and nanocapsules may reduce the use of agrochemicals while maintaining biological efficacy
Brazil’s chip-making dream
August 6, 2018 1:31 pm Leave your thoughtsNew Qualcomm packaging facility to place Brazil among global semiconductor producers