Between poetry and technique
August 20, 2021 12:36 pmPaulo Mendes da Rocha influenced generations and became known around the world as one of Brazil’s most important architects
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A man of ideas
August 20, 2021 12:36 pmSérgio Mascarenhas worked in a wide range of fields and helped to found important research institutes and startups in Brazil
Benjamin A. Cowan: Brazil and the new right
August 20, 2021 12:35 pmNorth American historian launches book about religious conservatism in the 20th century
Universal educator
August 20, 2021 12:34 pmOn the 100th anniversary of Paulo Freire's birth, researchers discuss his intellectual legacy
Edilson Osorio: A Brazilian startup in Estonia
August 20, 2021 12:33 pmA São Paulo entrepreneur expands into the Baltic nation and leads the digital governance sector
Digital diagnosis
August 20, 2021 12:31 pmSoftware capable of identifying skin cancer with greater than 90% accuracy
New biological pest control agents
August 20, 2021 12:27 pmNatural tick control and lacewings could help fight pests in Brazil’s cattle and coffee industries
Breathing microplastics
August 20, 2021 12:26 pmTiny and potentially harmful polymer particles and fibers found in human lungs
A statistical brain
August 20, 2021 12:25 pmExperiment involving structured sequences of sounds and silences corroborates long-held conjecture that the brain uses probabilistic models to anticipate events
Star fossil
August 20, 2021 12:24 pmNew survey of celestial bodies finds rare and ancient star over 10 billion years old
Learning to edit the genome
August 20, 2021 12:23 pmBrazil’s Crop Science Institute launches experiments with “gene scissors” to improve sugarcane, coffee, and citrus crops
Connections for innovation
August 20, 2021 12:23 pmUniversities obtaining more patents through partnerships with private companies
Boost for startups
August 20, 2021 12:21 pmGovernment passes bill to encourage investment in small innovative companies in Brazil
Mutually reinforcing
August 20, 2021 12:21 pmCombined with census data, new technologies are expanding the reach of demographic studies
A country in transformation
August 20, 2021 12:21 pmModern census methods can now better capture the reality of Brazilian society
A virtuous cycle
August 20, 2021 12:20 pmDemographic censuses have offered insight into Brazilian society and fueled research in academia
Néstor García Canclini: An anthropologist of the contemporary
August 20, 2021 12:19 pmA Brazilian intellectual produces pioneering analyses of the paradoxes of Latin American modernity
Warning from the deep
August 20, 2021 12:19 pmMonitoring the novel coronavirus in sewage systems improves epidemiological surveillance in Brazilian cities
Vaccines in the real world
August 20, 2021 12:18 pmCoronaVac and Covishield effectiveness tested in Serrana and Botucatu, two towns in the state of São Paulo
The awakening of a dormant virus
August 20, 2021 12:17 pmStudy suggests that SARS-CoV-2 activates dormant virus in the human genome
Hybrid coronavirus antibodies
August 20, 2021 12:17 pmA promising strategy for preventing and treating the novel coronavirus has been successfully tested in mice by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Changes in alcohol consumption
August 20, 2021 12:16 pmSelf isolation and social distancing seem to be changing the way alcohol is consumed in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a fall in the number of people drinking
Birth rates fall in six state capitals
August 20, 2021 12:16 pmThe number of new births has dropped further in six Brazilian capitals during the pandemic
Deaths exacerbate income losses
August 20, 2021 12:16 pmDeath of 430,000 people from COVID-19 until May could cost the economy R$10.9 billion per month
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
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