Physics
Photolab
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In the eye of a giant
Upon entry into operation, the Manacá beamline at the Sirius laboratory was directed at crystals of the 3CL protein, part of the mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 virus multiplies
By Redação
Astronomy
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Heading for Mars
The United Arab Emirates launched its first interplanetary space probe from a space center in Japan
By Redação
SpaceX
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A historic flight
On May 31, American astronauts arrived at the International Space Station for a three-month mission
By Redação
Astronomy
A moon on the move
Titan, the largest of Saturn's 82 moons, is moving away from the planet almost 100 times faster than previously estimated
By Redação
Interview
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Michael Boris Green: The tuner of strings
British physicist shares his role in the 1980s reformulation of a theory that aims to describe all that exists in the universe
By Marcos Pivetta and Ricardo Zorzetto
Microbiology
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Fighting infections with graphene
Nanomaterial enables low doses of light to eliminate bacteria
Physics
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Physicists immobilize glass particle
A research group in Austria cooled the first solid state object—a nanometer fragment of glass a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand
By Redação
Obituary
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The machine man
Engineer and physicist Ricardo Rodrigues was the designer of Sirius, the most complex and versatile research instrument ever built in Brazil
Interview
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Eunézio Antonio Thoroh de Souza: The voice of graphene
A physicist and opera singer from Minas Gerais has created a research center to turn basic science into high-tech products
By Carlos Fioravanti and Maria Guimarães
Astronomy
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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
By Redação