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Preys for the largest eagle on Earth dwindle in deforested areas | 1'58
Learn how the planet's invisible shield works, and what is the South Atlantic Anomaly | 3'34
Ornithologist Luís Fábio Silveira, curator of the bird collections at the Zoology Museum of the University of São Paulo (MZ-USP), explains how studies with capuchino seedeaters help understanding their diversification by means of evolution | 5'46
Ivair Gontijo is among those responsible for building and monitoring the rover Perseverance, which is searching for traces of life in Mars | 11'57
Culture of damaged fragments onto 3D-printed cribs is a promising technology for restoring threatened reefs | 4'50
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
Unmanned aerial vehicles are used to monitor tropical forests in a speedy, efficient and detail-rich manner | 4'34
Study suggests that extinct small terrestrial vertebrates, the lagerpetids, were the closest relatives of those mysterious winged reptiles | 6'43
Never before so many vaccines have been developed at the same time against a single disease, nor so rapidly | 7'32
Biota-Fapesp program reaches its 20th anniversary lending scientific bases to the creation of nature preservation areas and the search for sustainable development in São Paulo state
Biologist Eduardo Longui, from the Forest Institute of São Paulo, and architect and bowmaker Daniel Lombardi search for alternatives to brazilwood for manufacturing bows for cellos and violins. | 10'03
The description of a new species may help fighting against illegal trafficking of these rainforest animals | 4'03
Teams from several countries head projects seeking to produce imunizing agents in a short time
See how environmental degradation can favor the emergence of unknown viruses and unleash diseases such as the one caused by the novel coronavirus.
Throughout millenia, water bodies and landscape changes favor plant and animal diversification in the region
