Issue # 292 _ June 2020
Cover
- The reality of data
- Mapping and systematizing COVID-19 data is crucial to controlling the disease in Brazil By Redação
- Natural guests
- Abundant viruses contribute to the genetic diversity of life on Earth and may have emerged four times throughout the planet's history By Ricardo Zorzetto
- Brazil begins testing
- To better understand the spreading pandemic, research initiatives aim to increase the scale of COVID-19 diagnoses throughout the country By Yuri Vasconcelos
- The size of the pandemic
- Lag times in case reporting can hurt government efforts to contain spread of COVID-19 By Christina Queiroz
- The child enigma
- 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 By Frances Jones
- Predicting the course of epidemics
- Mathematical modeling of infectious disease, a science perfected over the last 250 years, is helping guide the COVID-19 response through uncertainties By Carlos Fioravanti
- Sergio Machado Rezende: Together against COVID-19
- 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 By Marcos Pivetta
- Restoring trust
- In the midst of the pandemic a new study measures high rates of confidence in science By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
- Calculating in the dark
- Creativity helps scientists predict the economic impacts of an unprecedented crisis By Diego Viana
- Research during the quarantine
- By Redação
GENDER

A handbook for guerrilla warfare against inequality
A United States report describes successful initiatives to increase the contribution of women in scientific careers
By Fabrício MarquesInequality

The diversity-innovation paradox
Women and ethnic minorities excel at proposing new ideas, but earn little recognition, according to an analysis of 1.2 million PhD theses
By Fabrício MarquesEnvironment

Biomes under attack
97% of the 12,000 square kilometers of land deforested in Brazil last year was in the Amazon and the Cerrado
By Marcos PivettaOil and gas engineering

Caverns for storing gases
New technology will allow deep-sea storage of the carbon dioxide and methane associated with oil extraction in pre-salt petroleum fields
By Domingos Zaparolli