Half of the world’s rivers dry up each year
August 20, 2021 12:12 pmMore than half of the world's rivers and streams have a stretch that dries up for at least one day each year
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The most complete human genome
August 20, 2021 12:12 pmOn May 27, the T2T consortium, an international collaboration involving 30 research institutions, published an article titled “The complete sequence of a human genome” on bioRxiv
The crows and the empty set
August 20, 2021 12:12 pmWith training, carrion crow were able to understand the empty set as a null numerical quantity close to one
The NIH’s plan to combat racism
August 20, 2021 12:09 pmFrancis Collins, director of the NIH introduced UNITE, a program launched to combat structural racism and increase diversity, equity, and inclusion
The near extinction of sharks
August 20, 2021 12:09 pmOcean sediment fossil records suggest that today's sharks are descended from the few survivors of a mass extinction that wiped out nearly all the shark species that lived in the early Miocene Epoch
Back to life after 24,000 years
August 20, 2021 12:09 pmRotifers of the Bdelloidea class are multicellular invertebrate organisms so small that they are usually only seen under a microscope
Earth-controlled temperature
August 20, 2021 12:04 pmA technology developed at the São Carlos School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo uses heat exchange between the subsoil and the foundation piles to acclimatize a building's interior
The oldest spiral galaxy
August 20, 2021 12:03 pmAstrophysicists have identified the oldest spiral galaxy ever observed
A giant water and food vacuum
August 20, 2021 12:03 pmAfrican elephants are able to fill their nostrils with 3.7 liters of water in just 1.5 seconds
Public R&D funding
August 20, 2021 11:52 amGovernment expenditure on R&D in relation to GDP
Academy expels researchers for sexual harassment
August 20, 2021 11:50 amThe US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has expelled researchers accused of sexual harassment
The weight of academic misconduct in German politics
August 20, 2021 11:50 amAcademic misconduct has become a sensitive political issue in Germany, the European Union country with the highest percentage of members of parliament that have a doctorate, at 17%
New wave of hijacked journals
August 20, 2021 11:50 amCloned journal websites continue to deceive unsuspecting authors, leading researchers to offer tips on how to identify fakes
The harvestman with eight canes
August 20, 2021 11:47 amOf all the harvestman species found in Brazil, Giupponia Chagasi is the best adapted to living in caves—a trait known as troglomorphism
No census
August 19, 2021 2:29 pmEvery 10 years, IBGE researchers visit every household in Brazil to carry out the national census, collecting demographic and socioeconomic... View Article
A weak spot on Earth’s magnetic field hovers over Brazil
August 1, 2021 2:00 pmLearn how the planet's invisible shield works, and what is the South Atlantic Anomaly | 3'34
High speed
July 20, 2021 6:04 pmBrazilian scientist sets world record during fiber optic connection studies
Settling accounts
July 20, 2021 6:02 pmNewly qualified accountants are abandoning tradition to become business decision-makers
The shadow of the white plague
July 20, 2021 6:00 pmTuberculosis persists, even 100 years after its vaccine was invented
In theory and in practice
July 20, 2021 5:54 pmAn enthusiast of empirical research, Leôncio Martins Rodrigues helped to pioneer social-science studies in Brazil
Learning at the turn of the century
July 20, 2021 5:52 pmResearch examines enrollment and attendance rates to measure Brazil’s progress in education
The visible and the invisible
July 20, 2021 5:42 pmDespite attempts to erase the iconography of slavery, it has left its mark on both the people and the land
Health under construction
July 20, 2021 5:29 pmResearchers propose a collaborative model to help prevent workplace accidents
Epileptic seizure warning
July 20, 2021 5:09 pmSão Paulo startup develops wearable device designed to identify seizures half an hour before they occur
Start, fall down, get up, start over
July 20, 2021 5:01 pmThis describes the lives of entrepreneurs facing continuous unforeseen events on the road to success
Less forest, more agriculture
July 20, 2021 3:34 pmSouth America loses natural vegetation while livestock and crops gain ground over the last three and a half decades
The muon enigma
July 20, 2021 3:27 pmTwo recent experiments reveal anomalous behavior in these mysterious particles that, if confirmed, could lead to a revision of the dominant theory of matter
The first bonding
July 20, 2021 1:51 pmInstructional home visits by nurses help teen mothers bond with their babies and contribute to child development
Weakened legislation
July 20, 2021 1:00 pmBrazil dismantling environmental protection structures during the pandemic
COVID-19, a battle fought by women
July 20, 2021 12:57 pmNetwork of female researchers looks for solutions to the challenges faced by women during the pandemic and seeks to influence public policy