Signs of Epilepsy
July 4, 2018 5:12 pm Leave your thoughtsInternational study of brain scans suggests a link between the disease and cerebral atrophy
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Five years later
July 4, 2018 5:10 pm Leave your thoughtsStudy spanning 71 countries shows that survival rates for prostate cancer rose and pediatric cancer fell in Brazil
Flight of the billionaires
July 4, 2018 5:07 pm Leave your thoughtsSpaceX accelerates private sector space race by putting an electric car into orbit
Unbalanced Dissemination
July 4, 2018 5:01 pm Leave your thoughtsReuse of scientific data is still uncommon, and varies depending on the field of knowledge
Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque: Cross-border knowledge flows
July 4, 2018 5:00 pm Leave your thoughtsThe expansion of international scientific collaborations is forming an innovation ecosystem that knows no borders, says a Brazilian economist
Legal certainty
July 4, 2018 5:00 pm Leave your thoughtsA new decree outlines measures to lift bureaucratic barriers and boost innovation in companies and universities
Marcelo Viana: A difficult equation
July 4, 2018 4:59 pm Leave your thoughtsThe director of IMPA talks about Brazil's entry into the international elite of mathematics research, and math education problems in the country's schools
Some effects of manufactured foods
July 4, 2018 4:58 pm Leave your thoughtsRecent studies stir controversy over the risks of eating processed foods that are high in preservatives, salt, sugar, and fats
Rocky planets with water and an atmosphere that could support life
July 4, 2018 4:56 pm Leave your thoughtsAt least five of the seven Earth-like planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 could hold as much as 250 times more water than the earth's oceans
Brazilian teachers paid less
July 4, 2018 4:56 pm Leave your thoughtsTeachers working at public elementary schools and high schools in Brazil earn less than half the average salary of teachers in other countries
Charred Neanderthal Tools
July 4, 2018 4:56 pm Leave your thoughtsExcavations resulted in the discovery of a number of tools indicating that Neanderthals used fire to shape wooden objects earlier than previously thought
Seabird feces plays a major role in global nutrient cycle
July 4, 2018 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsAn international group of researchers analyzed the impact that seabird guano has on the nutrient cycle
Less ozone over the tropics
July 4, 2018 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsThe ozone layer over Antarctica has increased by 20% since 2005
Software detects minor earthquakes
July 4, 2018 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers in the US have created a computer program that can detect small tremors and distinguish minor earthquakes from background noise
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
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