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
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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
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
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