The malaria vaccine pioneer
August 6, 2018 1:30 pm Leave your thoughtsRuth Nussenzweig died in New York City at 89 from a pulmonary embolism
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Replaced hearts
August 6, 2018 1:29 pm Leave your thoughtsFifty years after the first heart transplant, survival is up but donors remain scarce
The corrosion of the Caatinga
August 6, 2018 1:28 pm Leave your thoughtsWood extraction and use of land for crops and pasture reduce biodiversity and transform the landscape of the badlands
Half a century with ALS
August 6, 2018 1:28 pm Leave your thoughtsStephen Hawking may have been the longest-living patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Hawking’s legacy
August 6, 2018 1:28 pm Leave your thoughtsThe British physicist showed black holes can emit radiation and shrink in size
Frozen light
August 6, 2018 1:28 pm Leave your thoughtsTheoretical study proposes a new way of stopping light
Scars of a cataclysm in Central Brazil
August 6, 2018 1:28 pm Leave your thoughtsRocks found in the states of Mato Grosso, Goiás, and São Paulo reveal earthquake and tsunami caused by a meteorite some 250 million years ago
Help facing the fire
August 6, 2018 1:26 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian states begin using new tools to analyze data on forest fires
Diverse Environment
August 6, 2018 1:26 pm Leave your thoughtsUniversities invest in policies for the protection and inclusion of transgender students and researchers
A catalyst for debate
August 6, 2018 1:26 pm Leave your thoughtsFor ten years, the Mobilization for Business Innovation has been guiding corporate strategies and coordinating the dialogue between government, the private sector, and universities
On the frontiers of ethanol made from sugarcane
August 6, 2018 1:25 pm Leave your thoughtsProject outlines scenarios to increase biofuel production in Africa and Latin America
Impact on the market
August 6, 2018 1:25 pm Leave your thoughtsRenovaBio, a new national biofuel policy, will reward efficient producers and promises to expand supply
Elisa Pereira Reis: A pioneering look at social inequality
August 6, 2018 1:23 pm Leave your thoughtsA student of the ruling elite, researcher advocates continued development of comparative studies to gain a better understanding of social phenomena
A world controlled by algorithms
August 6, 2018 1:21 pm Leave your thoughtsLogical computer systems are having a growing impact on everyday life
Reduced access to ESO telescopes
August 6, 2018 1:21 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian astronomers will be granted less observation time at some of the world's most advanced telescopes
A superfamily of 13 million people
August 6, 2018 1:21 pm Leave your thoughtsThirteen million people connected by blood ties or marriage over five centuries make up the largest family tree ever constructed
Effects of a long space journey
August 6, 2018 1:21 pm Leave your thoughtsA long stay in space causes changes to the body that can last for months, even after returning to Earth
Crowdfunding success
August 6, 2018 1:19 pm Leave your thoughtsResearch to evaluate what factors may influence the outcome of this fundraising method
Brazilian rarities in Washington
August 6, 2018 1:19 pm Leave your thoughtsSome 60,000 items that could be of interest to Brazilian and Portuguese literature and history researchers have been made available in Washington D.C., USA
Five more Brazilians at the TWAS
August 6, 2018 1:19 pm Leave your thoughtsFive researchers from Brazilian institutions are among 55 who have been elected to join The World Academy of Sciences this year
Sensors for electronic tongues
August 6, 2018 1:18 pm Leave your thoughtsPhysicists have developed a high-precision technique for manufacturing microsensors used in the flavor detection systems of electronic tongues
The world’s oldest figural tattoos
August 6, 2018 1:18 pm Leave your thoughtsTwo naturally mummified bodies have what archaeologists consider to be the earliest known figural tattoos
Mapping hunger and education in Africa
August 6, 2018 1:18 pm Leave your thoughtsThe researchers created detailed maps that also revealed large educational disparities between genders and locations in Africa
Max Planck to recruit 20 new directors
August 6, 2018 1:18 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Society has started an international selection process to hire 20 new directors for its research institutes
The (almost) inaudible song of a hummingbird
August 6, 2018 1:18 pm Leave your thoughtsThe black jacobin hummingbird's song is inaudible to other bird species
Papers published on Zika and microcephaly
August 6, 2018 1:16 pm Leave your thoughtsMultiple irregularities
August 6, 2018 1:16 pm Leave your thoughtsJournal has announced the retraction of a scientific paper based on a number of factors
Billionaire startup founders charged with fraud
August 6, 2018 1:16 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Securities and Exchange Commission has formally charged biotechnology company Theranos with fraud
Credit where credit is due
August 6, 2018 1:16 pm Leave your thoughtsExperts recommend ways to ensure proper recognition of everyone who contributes to a scientific article
Algorithms, microchips, and the elite
August 6, 2018 1:15 pm Leave your thoughtsIn December, British newspaper The Economist published excerpts from an article based on weekly news reports written by an artificial... View Article