Star architecture and its impact on cities
July 4, 2018 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsThe construction of large architectural projects has a limited impact on the economic and social development of small and medium-sized cities
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The origins of malaria in South America
July 4, 2018 4:50 pm Leave your thoughtsThe main parasite that transmits malaria in Brazil and other South American countries, may have arrived on the continent between 25,000 and 10,000 years ago
Three announcements on yellow fever
July 4, 2018 4:50 pm Leave your thoughtsRecent announcements regarding yellow fever have included both good news and bad news
Rhino DNA puts poachers in jail
July 4, 2018 4:50 pm Leave your thoughtsDNA has been used as criminal evidence, enabling authorities to hand down more severe penalties in countries where poaching is banned
Female professors in higher education
July 4, 2018 4:50 pm Leave your thoughtsYoung authors in South Korea
July 4, 2018 4:48 pm Leave your thoughtsThe South Korean government is to begin an investigation into cases of researchers registering their own children as coauthors of their scientific articles
Agency takes action against sexual harassment
July 4, 2018 4:48 pm Leave your thoughtsThe NSF has announced a set of measures to combat sexual harassment in the academic environment
Preventing further crises
July 4, 2018 4:48 pm Leave your thoughtsReport proposes changing research practices to reduce the publication of studies whose results have not been replicated
Controversy at the dinner table
July 4, 2018 4:46 pm Leave your thoughtsFood preservation and processing methods, perfected over thousands of years, are fundamental to our health and well-being. Preserving meat in... View Article
An (almost) invisible neighborhood
July 4, 2018 4:45 pm Leave your thoughtsThe beauty of knowledge through images
Read the internacional issue 2018
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This is not a fried egg
June 28, 2018 4:59 pm Leave your thoughtsSun coral has a great ability to regenerate and a varied reproductive repertoire. These characteristics have enabled Tubastraea coccinea, a... View Article
Seeking freedom and survival
June 28, 2018 4:58 pm Leave your thoughtsSlave women used strategies to purchase their liberation and obtain employment
Settlers and farmers
June 28, 2018 4:57 pm Leave your thoughtsAncestors of the Jê group lived in pit houses and cultivated cassava and beans in the Santa Catarina highlands a thousand years ago
More efficient metals
June 28, 2018 4:56 pm Leave your thoughtsTechnological innovations enhance performance of steel used in electric motors and power transformers
Cattle genes
June 28, 2018 4:56 pm Leave your thoughtsKnowledge of bovine genetics could help farmers select Nelore cattle with tender meat
Biological control against citrus greening
June 28, 2018 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsCompanies invest in small wasps produced in the lab to combat insects that spread diseases to orange groves
Alternative uses for a plant fiber
June 28, 2018 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian companies are investing in nanocellulose, a promising material for reinforcing plastic and cement, and the production of prostheses and sensors
Hard and lifeless
June 28, 2018 4:52 pm Leave your thoughtsEven though they resemble Earth, the crusts of some rocky exoplanets may be too rigid to be habitable
Chip for particle collisions
June 28, 2018 4:51 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian researchers develop and test a device to be installed in the Large Hadron Collider at Cern
Quantum trickster
June 28, 2018 4:51 pm Leave your thoughtsA Brazilian group controlled the heat generated by atomic nuclei
Shelter for giants
June 28, 2018 4:51 pm Leave your thoughtsExtinct for 10,000 years, ground sloths and giant armadillos may have built the largest paleoburrows ever discovered on Earth
Hunting circuits
June 28, 2018 4:50 pm Leave your thoughtsTwo neural pathways that originate in the brain’s amygdala control the aggressive behavior of predators
Weight across generations
June 28, 2018 4:50 pm Leave your thoughtsAmong rats, the effects of excessive or insufficient feeding can be transmitted to children and grandchildren
The search for balance
June 28, 2018 4:50 pm Leave your thoughtsA study comparing scientific output by women in a range of countries highlights Brazil’s improvement
A map of scientific competencies
June 28, 2018 4:50 pm Leave your thoughtsStudy shows where researchers are concentrated and describes the impact of their production in the 15 administrative regions of the state of São Paulo
A worrisome calm
June 28, 2018 4:49 pm Leave your thoughtsThe PINTEC survey found stability in the number of Brazilian companies that innovated between 2012 and 2014 and observed increasing difficulties for industry
Industrial policy in check
June 28, 2018 4:48 pm Leave your thoughtsIn response to a ruling by a WTO panel, the Brazilian government considers changes in laws and in the ways in which it encourages R&D
Regina Maria Prosperi Meyer: Studies of a city in movement
June 28, 2018 4:48 pm Leave your thoughtsUrbanist who created new disciplines at FAU-USP dedicates herself to studying the São Paulo macrometropolis
The mechanisms of aging
June 28, 2018 4:47 pm Leave your thoughtsStudies of living cells and organisms identify genetic and molecular phenomena associated with physical and mental decline