Physics
Video
A tool which can reveal graphene’s mysterious properties
Superimposing sheets of the material – composed of a single layer of carbon atoms in a beehive-like pattern – reveals new properties and gives rise to a new field of research: twistronics | 3'20
By Redação
Astronomy
A galaxy destined to fade
Astronomers observed a galaxy ejecting immense quantities of cold gas, enough to form 10,000 new stars the size of the Sun every year
By Redação
Physics
Plasma can desalinate seawater
Experiments demonstrated for the first time the possibility of using plasma to accelerate the formation and precipitation of salt crystals from seawater
By Redação
Zoology
Sound absorbing wings
Microscopic structures on the scaled wings of two moth species are able to absorb many of the ultrasound waves emitted by bats
By Redação
Photolab
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
Heading for Mars
The United Arab Emirates launched its first interplanetary space probe from a space center in Japan
By Redação
SpaceX
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
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
Fighting infections with graphene
Nanomaterial enables low doses of light to eliminate bacteria
Physics
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
The machine man
Engineer and physicist Ricardo Rodrigues was the designer of Sirius, the most complex and versatile research instrument ever built in Brazil