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
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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
Rainforest selfies
August 6, 2018 1:15 pm Leave your thoughtsThe beauty of knowledge through images
Read the internacional issue
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Visceral leismaniasis gets to the metropolises
July 25, 2018 3:53 pm Leave your thoughtsDiagnosis difficulties and warmer climate favor disease movement towards large urban centers
From the newsroom to the medical clinic
July 4, 2018 5:22 pm Leave your thoughtsAfter working as a journalist in Brazil and Europe, Christian Kieling switched to medicine and today researches depression in adolescents
Doing the math
July 4, 2018 5:22 pm Leave your thoughtsProper research budgeting can be decisive to obtaining funding
A controversial vaccine
July 4, 2018 5:22 pm Leave your thoughtsEarly attempts to prevent yellow fever in Brazil, in 1883, were beset by controversy
Entry strategy
July 4, 2018 5:20 pm Leave your thoughtsIn less than a decade, new dynamics in migration flows and key features of legislation have led to a 34-fold increase in requests for asylum in Brazil
Groundwater seen from space
July 4, 2018 5:18 pm Leave your thoughtsA new satellite system will soon resume collecting aquifer data from around the globe
The endless search
July 4, 2018 5:17 pm Leave your thoughtsInternational researchers are constantly looking for lighter particles in the hope of finding dark matter
A novel filter
July 4, 2018 5:17 pm Leave your thoughtsIntercommunicating pores in graphene oxide membranes help separate water from alcohol
William Bialek: Between the living and the inanimate
July 4, 2018 5:17 pm Leave your thoughtsPrinceton researcher discusses the challenges of applying a quantitative approach to biological systems
Between water and land
July 4, 2018 5:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThe tendency toward more torrential rains could change the course of rivers and wetlands in the Pantanal region
Benedito Braga: A fundamental right
July 4, 2018 5:13 pm Leave your thoughtsWorld Water Council President Benedito Braga discusses his expectations for this month's World Water Forum in Brasília
Contamination beyond the mine
July 4, 2018 5:13 pm Leave your thoughtsAreas of the Amazon flooded by dams can raise mercury levels in fish consumed by local residents
Male or female? The mystery unfolds
July 4, 2018 5:12 pm Leave your thoughtsAmazonian frog species has more sex chromosomes than any other vertebrate