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
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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
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
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