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Anderson Rocha, head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (recod.ai) at the University of Campinas, explains how this technology works, as well as its applications and risks
Mimicking leaves, branches or rocks is one of the most efficient camouflage strategies, but it limits movements and possibilities of living areas | 3'57
Nutritional values of processed meat or vegan products are similar, but salt contents may be too high to be healthy | 3'44
Even banned in Brazil, electronic cigarettes are consumed by young people and are a health hazard | 3'17
Altered ocean currents carry less of the microorganisms which feed deep and cold water corals. Closer to the surface, rising temperatures pose energetic challenges for fishes | 3'02
Equipment set in Hawaii may significantly improve the ability to study distant galaxies and very weak stars | 2'52
A collection of magnetic resonance images shows that the organ grows rapidly until the third year after birth and then declines slowly from adult age on | 6'02
Bird extinction may unleash cascade effect where these pollinators and plants interact most intensely | 2'51
Brazilian primatologist Jean Boubli, from Salford University, in the UK, and his team, solved a 19th century mistery regarding the world's smallest monkeys | 3'47
Researchers use recognition algorithms to understand humpback whale annual migrations | 3'11
Historian Luiz Armando Bagolin, from the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo (IEB-USP), goes through highlights of literature, visual arts and thought by the Modernist movement champions
Experiments suggest that crescent-shaped dunes can move and interact in five different ways | 5'35
Asteroid collision may have created favorable conditions to the appearance of primitive life forms on Titan | 4'10
Understanding the plant circadian rhythms, and learning how to manipulate them, may widen cultivation options | 2'42
Paleontologists speak with Federal Prosecutors and the Federal Police to bring a stop to the trafficking of fossil assets in Brazil
