Mathematics
Science olympics

A place for girls in mathematics
A girls-only competition seeks to create a more welcoming environment for female talent in the subject
By Redação
Video

Predicting the spread of a disease
Altay de Souza, an epidemiologist and host of the podcast Naruhodo!, explain how the models which predict the coronavirus advance are built
By Redação
Video

These parrots use probability to get food
Biologist Amalia Bastos shows that birds from New Zealand can make calculations that so far only humans and chimpanzees were known to use
By Redação
Computer Science

Discriminatory algorithms
How artificial intelligence assumes discriminatory behavior and what science can do to prevent it
By Suzel Tunes
Science olympics

A place for girls in mathematics
A girls-only competition seeks to create a more welcoming environment for female talent in the subject
By Redação
mathematics

The first woman to win the Abel Prize
American mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize, one of the most important awards in mathematics
By Redação
Zoology

Bees capable of adding and subtracting
Apis mellifera bees can learn to recognize quantities
By Redação
History

Roughly 1.5 million Jews killed in just three months
Between August and October of 1942, at the height of Operation Reinhard, 500,000 Jews per month were taken to concentration camps and killed in occupied Poland
By Redação
Cover

Mimicking the brain
Artificial intelligence as a scientific field was borne from mathematical studies in the 1940s
By Suzel Tunes
Mathematics

Brazil among the world’s mathematical heavyweights
In January, the International Mathematical Union (IMU) approved the country's promotion into group 5,
By Redação
Marcelo Viana

Marcelo Viana: A mathematician 30 hours a day
Impa's director talks about Brazil's entry in the elite group in mathematics
By Redação
mathematics

Trigonometry on a 3700-year-old tablet from Babylon
Trigonometry on a 3700-year-old tablet from Babylon
By Redação
Atmospherical Sciences

The chaotic mathematics of whirlwinds
Computational model forecasts the stages of whirlwinds
By Redação
15th FCW prize

FCW prizewinners
Mathematician Jacob Palis and composer Edu Lobo are the winners
By Redação
Interconnectivity

Traffic on the net
System enables vehicles to exchange information about urban traffic
Thomas Lewinsohn

Thomas Lewinsohn: Amplitude to think
Ecologist integrates evolution and physical and mathematical models