Issue # 318 _ August 2022

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The foundations of a nation
Researchers analyze movements opposed to Brazil's emancipation from Portugal, revisiting the process of establishing the Brazilian state and its relationship with Hispanic America By

 

Scientific production

Scientific papers on COVID-19 alter the balance of knowledge generation

More than 500,000 articles on the pandemic have been published in journals and preprint servers

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Atmospheric Sciences

Global warming intensified torrential rainfall in northeastern Brazil and heatwaves in Europe

Studies suggest climate change caused by humans exacerbates extreme weather events, such as this year's torrential rainfall in Northeast Brazil

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ASTROPHYSICS

Impressive sharpness of the first images from the James Webb telescope

Cosmic snapshots show the far reaches of the Universe in infrared, as well as star nurseries and clusters of galaxies

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ECOLOGY

Solving the problem of honey diversity among native bees

With the help of scientists, states are establishing quality guidelines that differ from those used with Apis mellifera, the exotic species used as standard

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Health

Postmortem analysis identifies brain lesions in individuals who developed depression as adults

Study involved samples from 741 men and women aged 60 to 84 stored in USP’s Biobank for Studies on Aging

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OPTICS

New system improves the performance of atomic-resolution microscopes

Innovation developed at UNICAMP launched on the global market by American company

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humanities

Understanding Brazil

By shedding light on lesser-known perspectives, scientific investigations provide a better understanding of Brazil’s independence and its consequences

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History

Interpreters of political debate

Indigenous peoples appropriated liberal ideas circulating in the Americas and Europe in order to claim their rights

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Crafters of emancipation

The political approach taken by the protagonists of Brazilian independence was marked by liberalism and constitutional revolutions

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History

Paper battle

Newspapers and political pamphlets spread ideas, questions, and controversies surrounding Brazil’s independence

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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Science to help build a nation

Museums, research institutions, maps, and surveys of natural resources grew in importance in the Brazilian Empire

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bicentennial

Brazil’s independence, from A to Z

New and diverse “Independence Dictionary” features 700 entries written by 276 different researchers from 11 countries

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Right

Brazil’s post-independence justice system broke away from, yet built on, the past

The country’s Judiciary was established amid major shifts in the late colonial period

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geography

The surprises of old maps

Navy collection brought from Portugal in 1808 reveals cartographers and little-known phenomena

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Art

Selective memory

The director of the Paulista Museum at the beginning of the 20th century commissioned paintings to exclude depictions of popular participation in the fight for Brazil’s Independence

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History

Origins of Independência ou Morte!

Historian identifies French and Italian works that likely influenced the famed painting’s Brazilian author Pedro Américo

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SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION

Consolidated partnerships

Collaborations between Brazil and Portugal prioritize studies on new energies, particle physics, and the history of the two countries in the twentieth century

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images

Images of history, history of images

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