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Companies and researchers against racism

January 26, 2021 1:19 pm Published by

Amid the anti-racism demonstrations that took place in June after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, USA, multinational tech company IBM decided to suspend development of all facial recognition systems

A moon on the move

January 26, 2021 1:19 pm Published by

Titan, the largest of Saturn's 82 moons, is moving away from the planet almost 100 times faster than previously estimated

A colossal eruption

January 26, 2021 1:18 pm Published by

One of the largest volcanic eruptions to have left a record on Earth occurred 8.7 million years ago

List of retractions grows

January 26, 2021 1:10 pm Published by

It has been 10 years since German anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt was involved in one of the largest scientific misconduct scandals in history. Even today, the scandal continues

The child enigma

January 22, 2021 6:23 pm Published by

Researchers are trying to unravel why so few children contract COVID-19 and why some of those who do develop a severe inflammation of the blood vessels

At the atom’s core

January 22, 2021 5:46 pm Published by

Born 100 years ago this year, theoretical physicist Jayme Tiomno studied particle interactions in the atom’s nucleus

Green microbattery

January 22, 2021 5:42 pm Published by

Researchers from USP and Harvard develop a vegetable gelatin prototype for medical applications

Caverns for storing gases

January 22, 2021 5:39 pm Published by

New technology will allow deep-sea storage of the carbon dioxide and methane associated with oil extraction in pre-salt petroleum fields

Biomes under attack

January 22, 2021 5:38 pm Published by

97% of the 12,000 square kilometers of land deforested in Brazil last year was in the Amazon and the Cerrado

Brazil begins testing

January 22, 2021 5:19 pm Published by

To better understand the spreading pandemic, research initiatives aim to increase the scale of COVID-19 diagnoses throughout the country

Natural guests

January 22, 2021 5:15 pm Published by

Abundant viruses contribute to the genetic diversity of life on Earth and may have emerged four times throughout the planet's history