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Vital ventilators

December 7, 2020 5:53 pm Published by

Brazil’s hospitals scramble to buy ventilators for ICUs, while a FAPESP-supported firm closes a deal to supply 6,500 units to the Brazilian Ministry of Health

Science fights back

December 7, 2020 5:35 pm Published by

In just four months, 8,000 scientific articles have been published on Covid-19, more than 70 drugs tested against SARS-CoV-2, and the first vaccines trialed on humans

Banning travel alone will not stop the pandemic

December 7, 2020 5:33 pm Published by

Public health actions, such as early testing, washing hands, social distancing, and self-isolation are likely to be more effective in reducing the transmission rate of the SARS-CoV-2 virus than simply reducing national and international travel

The ideal fabric for homemade masks

December 7, 2020 5:28 pm Published by

A mixture of cotton and natural silk or chiffon is the best combination for making homemade masks capable of blocking the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Virus on the attack

December 7, 2020 5:27 pm Published by

Transmission electron microscope images provide a detailed look at how SARS-CoV-2 attacks, infects, and replicates in a culture of Vero cells

Paper and sponge made from pollen

December 7, 2020 5:26 pm Published by

Researchers transformed grains of sunflower pollen into a microgel with controllable properties and synthesized products with consistencies of gel, paper, and sponge

The new dimensions of Ur

December 7, 2020 5:20 pm Published by

Ur may have occupied an area up to eight times greater than previously estimated by archaeologists in the 1980s

A giant tortoise

December 7, 2020 5:18 pm Published by

The largest freshwater turtle that ever existed, possibly the largest of all turtles, lived between 13.8 million and 5.3 million years ago in South America, inhabiting a larger area than previously thought

More agile drones

December 7, 2020 5:17 pm Published by

Engineers have developed a system that allows drones to detect and quickly avoid moving objects in the air

Primitive gardens in the Amazon

December 7, 2020 5:14 pm Published by

Evidence of cassava and pumpkin cultivation, dated at 10,350 and 10,250 years ago respectively, helped an international team of researchers to identify 4,700 artificial forests in the Llanos de Moxos region in Bolivia

Preprints and published articles

December 7, 2020 5:13 pm Published by

A study led by researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro compared preliminary scientific manuscripts shared on preprint repositories with their final versions published in scientific journals after peer review

Rain awakens volcano in Hawaii

December 7, 2020 5:10 pm Published by

An abnormal volume of rainfall in early 2018 may have intensified the eruption of Kīlauea, a volcano in Hawaii, USA, in May of the same year.

Why females live longer

December 7, 2020 5:09 pm Published by

The difference in lifespan between the two sexes, the researchers noted, is not due to different aging rates

A keen eye for detecting manipulation

December 7, 2020 4:58 pm Published by

In an effort to improve the quality of the scientific articles it publishes, the Journal of Clinical Investigation began requiring that all authors provide the raw data produced by their experiments