Negotiated Christianity
August 22, 2017 3:35 pm Leave your thoughtsBetween the 17th and 18th centuries, Jesuit missions in the Spanish Amazon had to deal with indigenous versions of Catholicism
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The peoples of Lagoa Santa
August 22, 2017 3:35 pm Leave your thoughtsHuman burial sites in Minas Gerais reveal a succession of customs from 10,000 to 8,000 years ago
More sustainable buses
August 22, 2017 3:35 pm Leave your thoughtsA Brazilian company launches a cleaner hybrid electric vehicle in line with multinational manufacturing trends
Laboratory Skin
August 22, 2017 3:34 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian researchers create human skin models to study diseases and replace animal testing for cosmetics and drugs
Superproperties in 2D
August 22, 2017 3:30 pm Leave your thoughtsSimulations suggest that new nanostructured materials capable of storing information can be developed
Magnetic memories of the Jesuit missions
August 22, 2017 3:30 pm Leave your thoughtsIn ruins located in southern Brazil, geophysicists have recovered information about the Earth’s magnetic field from 350 years ago
Irreversible disorder in the world of atoms
August 22, 2017 3:30 pm Leave your thoughtsInternational team measures the increase in entropy in carbon nuclei for the first time
The harmful effects of illegal hunting
August 22, 2017 3:30 pm Leave your thoughtsBanned in Brazil since the 1960s, hunting has reduced the populations of several animal species and increased the risk of environmental imbalance
The golden age of the cynodonts
August 22, 2017 3:29 pm Leave your thoughtsSpecies first discovered in Africa, and now in Brazil, lived during the peak of diversity of mammal precursors
Reefs at the mouth of the Amazon River
August 22, 2017 3:29 pm Leave your thoughtsThe region where the river meets the ocean between the states of Pará and Amapá is home to the northernmost corals along Brazil’s coast
Seeking to understand the origin of the forest
August 22, 2017 3:29 pm Leave your thoughtsIn a joint effort to explain the biological diversity of Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest, biologists and geologists have created the new field of geogenomics
Zika, a collaboration to characterize a syndrome
August 22, 2017 3:29 pm Leave your thoughtsInterdisciplinary work has confirmed that the Zika virus causes microcephaly and other types of brain damage in perinatally-infected infants
Women’s odds in academia
August 22, 2017 3:24 pm Leave your thoughtsResearch suggests that having a higher proportion of women in a field does not guarantee female scholars an advantage in reaching the top of their career
From deforestation to urban pollution
August 22, 2017 3:24 pm Leave your thoughtsReport says that the forest code is expected to help Brazil reduce greenhouse gases, but goals for 2030 are tied to industrial modernization
Precision Medicine
August 22, 2017 3:24 pm Leave your thoughtsRIDCs establish a platform for genetic data to support the search for personalized therapies
The DNA of innovation in metropolises
August 22, 2017 3:19 pm Leave your thoughtsResearcher shows how big universities influence the economy and environment of the urban regions where they are located
Challenges made-to-order
August 22, 2017 3:18 pm Leave your thoughtsEighteen São Paulo private institutes conduct research in response to demands
Mission: Thinking about the future of science
August 22, 2017 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsAnthropologist is appointed to a council that advises the U.S. government
A guiding star for industry
August 22, 2017 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsBooks discuss ways to address the deindustrialization of Brazil’s economy
Jorge Kalil: Tamer of Crises
August 22, 2017 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThe immunologist talks about his experience as head of InCor and Butantan
The impacts of investing
August 22, 2017 3:16 pm Leave your thoughtsThe impacts of investing
Public funding of science, geogenomics and death rituals
August 22, 2017 3:15 pm Leave your thoughtsPublic funding of science, geogenomics and death rituals
Internet for all
August 21, 2017 6:44 pm Leave your thoughtsBalloons can help bring connectivity and vigilance to remote areas
Bathtub astrophysics
August 9, 2017 3:56 pm Leave your thoughtsExperiment replays phenomenon which may occur near black holes
This way to Venus
July 28, 2017 5:54 pm Leave your thoughtsStudies performed by chemist land him a research position at NASA
A helping hand for innovation
July 28, 2017 5:50 pm Leave your thoughtsBrazilian universities invest in promoting a culture of intellectual property
Benvenuti, Doctors!
July 28, 2017 5:40 pm Leave your thoughtsItalian physicians contributed to research in São Paulo
Light and Power
July 28, 2017 5:30 pm Leave your thoughtsCompanies from the 19th century formed the São Paulo electric power industry
Sedentary farmers
July 28, 2017 5:06 pm Leave your thoughtsAncestors of the Jê group engaged in farming a thousand years ago
Chemistry in evolution
July 28, 2017 4:46 pm Leave your thoughtsRhodia invests in sustainable chemistry