Geology

Video

A speck of dirt to solve a crime?

Soil sample analysis can aid investigations and help solve crimes | 4'31

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Oceanography

The Saga of the Paratethys

The world's largest lake formed 12 million years ago and then disappeared, giving rise to the Caspian and Black Seas

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hydrology

Half of the world’s rivers dry up each year

More than half of the world's rivers and streams have a stretch that dries up for at least one day each year

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Video

A weak spot on Earth’s magnetic field hovers over Brazil

Learn how the planet's invisible shield works, and what is the South Atlantic Anomaly | 3'34

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Geology

In the depths of a geyser

For the first time, geoscientists from the University of Utah and Yellowstone National Park, USA, have mapped the interior of the world's most powerful geyser

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Geology

Coastal mountains moving

Subject to constant erosion, they are slowly advancing inland, and within a few million years could form a vast coastal plain

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Geology

Gas from an ancient sea

Methane released by a saline lake may have caused a rise in temperature leading to the diversification of life forms on the planet

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Geology

Water on the near side of the moon

There is water on the Moon, and not only in the dark craters located near its poles

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Photolab

Ancient dunes

The sand dunes on the banks of the São Francisco River, the most extensive inland dunes in Brazil, began to form more than 20,000 years ago

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COVID-19

Seismographs used to measure social distancing

Due to the social distancing measures adopted to contain the pandemic, seismographs in large cities registered a significant reduction in the waves generated by ground movement

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Archaeology

30,000 years ago in the Americas

Mexican site suggests settlement of the Americas began 30,000 years ago

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Astronomy

Asteroid showers on Earth and the Moon

About 800 million years ago, fragments of a large asteroid collided with Earth and the Moon

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Geology

A colossal eruption

One of the largest volcanic eruptions to have left a record on Earth occurred 8.7 million years ago

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Geology

Rain awakens volcano in Hawaii

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.

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Environment

Beaches at risk of disappearing

Half of the planet's beaches could disappear by the end of the century due to rising sea levels and erosion caused by climate change

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Astrophysics

Mars in super-high resolution

In March, NASA presented the highest resolution panoramic image ever taken of the surface of Mars

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Environment

Smoke at the top of the world

Since the eighteenth century, global industry has been leaving its mark at one of the highest points in the world: the Himalayas mountain range

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Geochemistry

Stardust found in meteorite

Meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969 contains material up to 7.5 billion years old—older than our solar system

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Retrospect

A coveted territory

A treaty signed 60 years ago governs occupation and scientific research in Antarctica

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Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years

Science spaces

Pesquisa FAPESP articles have presented interesting places for science tourism

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Tourism

Travel lessons

Travel itineraries combine science learning with exploring new horizons, allowing visitors to act as research assistants on scientific studies

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Archaeology

New glyphs found in the Peruvian desert

Archaeologists from Japan have identified 143 new drawings—or geoglyphs—of animals, plants, and people in the Nazca desert, near the coast of Peru

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Geology

Why the Nile is so unchanging

The Nile has followed the same path in North Africa for almost 30 million years

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Geology

Titan’s landscape

Of all the celestial bodies in our solar system, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has the most similar geology to Earth

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Astronomy

Water in the atmosphere of other worlds

A group has identified water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b by studying images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

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Geology

A hidden continent in Europe

An international group of geologists has reconstructed the history of an ancient continent that collided with southern Europe approximately 120 million years ago

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Archaeology

The water people

For 1,000 years, indigenous people in South America lived in stilt-house villages in the lowlands of present-day Maranhão

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Geology

Diamonds as old as the Earth

Mined in the municipality of Juína, Mato Grosso State, the diamonds were formed 410–660 kilometers deep inside the Earth

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Photolab

A landscape in an egg

A group led by paleontologist Sérgio Alex Azevedo, from the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, was able to identify the fossil by analyzing its microstructure

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Oceanography

Revelations from a submerged archipelago

Beaches, rivers, and mangroves covered a mountain range that was above sea level 40 million years ago

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