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Techniques in the search for a vaccine against Covid-19

Teams from several countries head projects seeking to produce imunizing agents in a short time

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How does deforestation relate to new pandemics?

See how environmental degradation can favor the emergence of unknown viruses and unleash diseases such as the one caused by the novel coronavirus.

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How do rivers and floodplains influence species formation in Amazonia?

Throughout millenia, water bodies and landscape changes favor plant and animal diversification in the region

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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

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A blue pigment from beets

How chemist Erick Bastos' team, from the Chemistry Institute of the University of São Paulo, created a natural dye with industrial potential | 2'48

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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

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Biologists uncover pollinating opossum

Almost 30 years after the suspicion was raised, discovery reduces the mystery of an unusual flower

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How the growth of the evangelical population is transforming Brazilian society

In 10 years, followers increased by 61% and reached a range of participation spheres, such as Parliament. Paula Montero and Jacqueline Moraes Teixeira, from USP, and Fábio Lacerda, from Cebrap, explain how | 14'

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Why does Brazil need a scientific station in Antarctica?

Researchers speak on the importance of being present on the continent, and on the projects being run there | 9'20

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How does the Amazon controls Earth’s climate?

Physicist Paulo Artaxo, from USP, explains the Amazonian rainforest’s role in the water and carbon cycles in Brazil as well as globally

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Profile: Thoroh de Souza

Physicist and classical singer planned a research center aimed at making basic science into high technology products.

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Researchers are under threat. How can they protect themselves? – Resistance to science (EP1)

Video series discusses the confidence crisis and the atacks on scientific knowledge

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Programs track Amazon deforestation

PRODES and DETER systems, developed by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), have different and complementary roles. Understand how

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How to protect sharks

Research group tracks oceanic sharks and maps them onto fishing zones in order to propose conservation areas | 3'40"

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Plastic pollution, in numbers and pictures

Since the mid-20th century, an estimated 8,9 billion tons of plastics have been produced worldwide