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January 26, 2021 1:19 pm Published by Redação 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
January 26, 2021 1:19 pm Published by Redação Titan, the largest of Saturn's 82 moons, is moving away from the planet almost 100 times faster than previously estimated
January 26, 2021 1:19 pm Published by Redação Archaeologists have mapped an entire Ancient Roman city without carrying out a single excavation
January 26, 2021 1:18 pm Published by Redação One of the largest volcanic eruptions to have left a record on Earth occurred 8.7 million years ago
January 26, 2021 1:16 pm Published by Redação Number of projects at each institution (as of 06/18/2020)
January 26, 2021 1:10 pm Published by Redação 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
January 26, 2021 1:09 pm Published by Redação Gary Urton has been put on paid leave while the institution investigates allegations of sexual harassment filed by former students
January 26, 2021 1:09 pm Published by Fabrício Marques How a suspicious big-data company was able to provide data for COVID-19 articles published in two major scientific journals
January 26, 2021 1:09 pm Published by Alexandra Ozorio de Almeida - Editor in Chief Less than four months after China notified the WHO that it had identified a cluster of pneumonia cases “of unknown... View Article
January 26, 2021 1:08 pm Published by Redação Scorpions of the genus Ananteris can shed their stinger when attacked
January 22, 2021 7:19 pm Published by Redação Fernando Carvall“I keep nudging my students and trying to send a positive message” I head a laboratory at UFRJ’s Institute... View Article
January 22, 2021 6:30 pm Published by Diego Viana Creativity helps scientists predict the economic impacts of an unprecedented crisis
January 22, 2021 6:29 pm Published by Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade In the midst of the pandemic a new study measures high rates of confidence in science
January 22, 2021 6:27 pm Published by Marcos Pivetta The physicist is one of the coordinators of the Scientific Committee for the Fight against Coronavirus in the Northeast, which advises the region's governors
January 22, 2021 6:25 pm Published by Carlos Fioravanti Mathematical modeling of infectious disease, a science perfected over the last 250 years, is helping guide the COVID-19 response through uncertainties
January 22, 2021 6:23 pm Published by Frances Jones 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
January 22, 2021 6:23 pm Published by Christina Queiroz Lag times in case reporting can hurt government efforts to contain spread of COVID-19
January 22, 2021 5:48 pm Published by Sidnei Santos de Oliveira Brazilian researcher wins international award for his studies on chronic pain
January 22, 2021 5:47 pm Published by Sidnei Santos de Oliveira Telemedicine requires knowledge beyond simply searching the internet
January 22, 2021 5:46 pm Published by Carlos Fioravanti Born 100 years ago this year, theoretical physicist Jayme Tiomno studied particle interactions in the atom’s nucleus
January 22, 2021 5:45 pm Published by Christina Queiroz Based in France, Ruy Fausto was considered one of the most important Brazilian theorists of Marxism
January 22, 2021 5:44 pm Published by Bruno de Pierro School and university closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic spark debate on distance learning
January 22, 2021 5:42 pm Published by Frances Jones Researchers from USP and Harvard develop a vegetable gelatin prototype for medical applications
January 22, 2021 5:39 pm Published by Domingos Zaparolli New technology will allow deep-sea storage of the carbon dioxide and methane associated with oil extraction in pre-salt petroleum fields
January 22, 2021 5:38 pm Published by Marcos Pivetta 97% of the 12,000 square kilometers of land deforested in Brazil last year was in the Amazon and the Cerrado
January 22, 2021 5:35 pm Published by Fabrício Marques Women and ethnic minorities excel at proposing new ideas, but earn little recognition, according to an analysis of 1.2 million PhD theses
January 22, 2021 5:34 pm Published by Fabrício Marques A United States report describes successful initiatives to increase the contribution of women in scientific careers
January 22, 2021 5:32 pm Published by Christina Queiroz The critic, novelist, and poet pioneered transdisciplinary and postcolonial analyses of Brazilian literature
January 22, 2021 5:19 pm Published by Yuri Vasconcelos To better understand the spreading pandemic, research initiatives aim to increase the scale of COVID-19 diagnoses throughout the country
January 22, 2021 5:15 pm Published by Ricardo Zorzetto Abundant viruses contribute to the genetic diversity of life on Earth and may have emerged four times throughout the planet's history