Geology
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
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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Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years
Science spaces
Pesquisa FAPESP articles have presented interesting places for science tourism
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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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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Botany
Plants with miner roots
Study demonstrates a new function of the roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha
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Geology
Light Brazilian earthquakes
Brazil experiences earthquakes of a low to medium magnitude, similar to those of central-eastern USA and the interior of Australia
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Geology
Looking deep into Mars
Almost six months after leaving Earth, NASA's InSight probe landed safely in Elysium Planitia, in the equatorial region of Mars
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