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Solar eclipse offers rare chance to solve Sun’s magnetic-field mysteries
When the Moon blocks the Sun over Greenland, Iceland and Spain on 12 August, researchers will get roughly two minutes to study the solar corona, the Sun’s outermost layer, which is only visible to the naked eye during total eclipses.
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Hits from the bong: music obsessives rescue the sound of Spain’s ancient bells
For centuries bells were the fastest means of communication, calling people to meetings, warning about wildfires, and were even believed to offer protection from storms – now they are being given a new life In 2002, Silberius de Ura was…
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Los eclipses que van a oscurecer España iluminarán los misterios de la corona solar
Danilo Torres apunta con su móvil al horizonte en una llanura en medio de Castilla y León.
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Shades of blue
Refoxos, Spain—When the researcher arrives, Herminia is already waiting for him, calmly seated on a chair in her courtyard, a leafy shelter providing protection from the unseasonably hot Sun.
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How a biologist turned amateur sleuth to solve a century-old art riddle
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists believed a patient’s condition could be diagnosed by analysing their face.
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Equilibrios complejos
Este artículo es el ganador del Concurso de divulgación Ciencia Jot Down con la temática «orden y caos» en la modalidad de ensayo.
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How These Bull-Shaped Billboards Became Spanish Icons
Until the 1990s, when billboards were banned in Spain, these bulls were painted with the name of Veterano Osborne brandy.
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Farming bill threatens Spain’s most important wetland, scientists say
A plan to expand irrigated farming around one of Europe’s most important wetlands has alarmed conservation scientists and European officials.
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‘Gold library’ helps Brazil crack down on Amazon’s illegal mining
Launched in 2019, the Ouro Alvo program is creating a gold database with samples obtained from different parts of Brazil.
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Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities
The Amazon region produces more than a quarter of the energy in Brazil. Still, hundreds of thousands of families are off the grid and rely on expensive diesel generators to produce electricity.
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How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon
As Brazil prepares to turn the page on the Bolsonaro government, finding sustainable and economically viable alternatives for the Amazon region remains challenging.
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El camino bolsonarista que conduce a Lula
Un recorrido, con paros en medio, por el Estado brasileño de Rondonia, donde siete de cada diez votantes apoyaron a Bolsonaro.
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What’s The Genetic Link To Stuttering?
In 1939, a young psychology student from Iowa named Mary Tudor began the research project, “Monster Study.” Tudor's supervisor, Wendell Johnson, had a theory that the reason why some people stutter is that at some point in their…
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Electrical stimulation of the brain may help people who stutter
When Guillermo Mejias was 7 years old, his parents sent him out to buy bread during a family holiday in southern Spain.
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El lenguaje de la vida
Este artículo ha sido finalista del Concurso de divulgación Ciencia Jot Down en la modalidad de ensayo.
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La Tierra no es redonda
El péndulo de Richer La fuerza de la gravedad no es igual en todas partes. El primero en observarlo fue el astrónomo francés Jean Richer cuando se encontraba en Sudamérica realizando unas medidas para estimar la distancia entre la…
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La pareja perfecta
Louis Armstrong tardó casi cuarenta años en encontrar al amor de su vida. Corría el año 1939 y ya llevaba a sus espaldas tres matrimonios fracasados.
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Spanish volunteers remove eucalyptus in bid to prevent wildfires
Galicia, Spain – Joam Evans and his family live in Froxan, a small village in the mountains of Galicia, an autonomous region in Spain’s northwest.
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Hotter and drier: Deforestation and wildfires take a toll on the Amazon
Drought and high temperatures amplify the destructive effects of deforestation and wildfires.
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Estudo sugere que pessoas em “tratamento precoce” tiveram taxas mais altas de infecção por covid-19 em Manaus
Aviso aos leitores: o EL PAÍS mantém abertas as informações essenciais sobre o coronavírus durante a crise.
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In Brazil, Land Value Capture Supports the Needs of the Community
Standing just a few meters from São Paulo’s iconic Octávio Frias de Oliveira bridge, the Jardim Edite public housing complex is hard to miss.
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Charlie Parker y el Proyecto Manhattan
A finales de 1938, el físico húngaro Leo Szilard se instaló en un hotel en Harlem, Nueva York, a pocas manzanas de los clubes de música y de los laboratorios de la Columbia University.
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Study Estimates 76 Percent of Brazilian City Exposed to SARS-CoV-2
The number, extrapolated from antibodies present in blood donors in Manaus, should be treated with caution, experts warn.
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São Paulo abandons plan to raid research institutions’ coffers
The academic community in Brazil’s São Paulo state is breathing a sigh of relief after the state government has amended a controversial bill that threatened to cripple scientific research.
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Bill threatens key Brazilian universities
Summary Academic researchers in São Paulo, Brazil's wealthiest and most populous state, are warning that a proposed budget bill could cripple major universities and long-term research projects.
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The Life and Death of the ‘Floating City’ of Manaus
For more than 40 years, Manaus, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, had a neighborhood that floated on the river.
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Evicted indigenous people in Manaus struggle to stay safe amid COVID-19 crisis
A group of about 400 indigenous people were displaced from an informal settlement on the outskirts of Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon in February, reportedly in connection with drug trafficking issues in the area, despite previous…
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How coronavirus could spread like wildfire in Brazil’s favelas
In the middle-class and high-end neighbourhoods of Brazil, a quietness hangs over the empty streets as people stay at home and businesses close their doors, but down in the favelas, life continues its frantic rhythm.
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Indigenous communities in Brazil fear pandemic's impact
To the older generation of the Paiter Surui, the COVID-19 pandemic looks disturbingly familiar.
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When will the Amazon hit a tipping point?
At the same time, large parts of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, are being cut down and burnt.
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Cubatão, London and Delhi: Greetings from the air pollution frontline
Can we ever hope to breathe easy again? Air pollution affects 91% of the world’s population, and our three postcards give us three distinct perspectives on a complex, important challenge.
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Amazon fires: Children having trouble breathing as nearby villages choked with smoke
For residents of Porto Velho, the capital of the state of Rondonia in the Brazilian Amazon, waking up to a cloud of smoke is becoming all too familiar.
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Amazon rainforest fires leave São Paulo in the dark
The number of forest fires in Brazil soared 85 percent between January 1 and August 20 compared to a year ago, according to data from the Brazilian National Institute of Space Research (INPE).
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In Brazil, Thousands of Research Fellowships Are at Risk
ABOVE: CNPQ/DIVULGAÇÃO More than 80,000 Brazilian students and researchers could lose their government-funded fellowships in the coming weeks.
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Amid Science Cuts, Brazil’s National Museum Tries to Recover
Last weekend, Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro celebrated its 201st anniversary—and the first one after the devastating fire that destroyed the museum’s main building last September.
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An Urban Amazon Community Sheds Light on Brazil’s Forgotten Black History
In Manaus, the largest city of the Brazilian Amazon, there’s a community whose members pride themselves on being direct descendants of people enslaved and brought forcibly across the Atlantic from Africa.
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A pesar de los incendios y la deforestación, Bolsonaro defiende en la ONU ser “uno de los países que más protege el medio ambiente”
El presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, abrió este martes la 74º Asamblea General de la ONU con un discurso desafiante y lleno de ataques.
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Cumbre sobre la Acción Climática: compromisos escasos y reciclados
Nueva York, Madrid // «No se trata de una cumbre para hablar, sino para pasar a la acción.
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Qué es la Cumbre sobre la Acción Climática y qué podemos esperar de ella
NUEVA YORK // Este lunes 23 de Septiembre tendrá lugar en Nueva York la Cumbre de Acción Climática.
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The São Paulo taxi firm that dares to go where Uber doesn't
Brasilândia feels more like a village in its own right than a peripheral district in a bustling metropolis of nearly 20 million people.
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The Art, Science, and Allure of Spain’s Water-Cooling Jugs
In the last few decades, much has changed in Las Barreras de Órgiva. This Granadan village, in southern Spain’s Alpujarra mountains, was once home to dozens of pottery workshops.
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Criar melhores cidades implica resolver a questão do automóvel, do terreno caro na periferia e do condomínio
Por Ignacio Amigo Para que as cidades se tornem “inclusivas, seguras, resilientes e sustentáveis” é necessário repensar o espaço público, começando por enfrentar o império do automóvel, o encarecimento desenfreado dos terrenos nas…
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Brazilian Academics Protest Against Budget Cuts
Students and faculty across Brazil took to the streets on May 15 to protest against budget freezes and the suspension of new research scholarships enacted by the federal government on May 2.
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Human pressure on the Serengeti’s fringes threatens the wildlife within
Spanning more than 40,000 square kilometers (15,400 square miles), the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in East Africa is one of the largest protected areas in the world.
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Redes ecológicas mostram como perturbações se propagam entre espécies
Quando Marília Palumbo Gaiarsa pensa em comunidades biológicas, ela enxerga pontos e traços.
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Pouco conhecido, vírus da família do HIV infecta milhares no País
Há 17 anos, João Paulo Pereira Lopes começou a sentir uma dor na perna direita. Algum tempo depois a dor se estendeu à outra perna, ao ponto de começar a atrapalhar o seu trabalho como auxiliar de limpeza em um prédio de São Paulo.
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Study sheds light on how seeds survive in tropical soils
Researchers have identified three different strategies by which seeds from pioneer tree species avoid predators and await the right time to germinate.
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In Brazil, a forest community helps seed new trees far and wide
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is dotted with quilombos, communities originally founded by former slaves, some of which have been around for more than 300 years.
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Unha-de-gato combate efeitos da obesidade em camundongos
. Uma pesquisa realizada pelo grupo da professora Carla Carvalho, do Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas da USP, mostrou que o consumo de extrato da planta amazônica unha-de-gato (Uncaria tormentosa) melhora os sintomas da obesidade em…
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Incluir para igualar
Apesar de avanços na última década, a educação inclusiva ainda está longe de ser uma realidade
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Brazil’s plant biodiversity still not fully present in its seed banks
Seed banks are a cheap and effective way of protecting species against extinction and securing genetic diversity.
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The Metro Stations of São Paulo That Read Your Face
Via Quatro, the concession holder of São Paulo Metro’s Yellow Line, has recently installed a new set of interactive platform doors that display ads and information in three stations.
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In Brazil, an island laboratory for Atlantic Forest restoration
Anchieta Island, just off the coast of Brazil near São Paulo, has seen the worst side of humans.
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For the Caiçaras, environmental laws in Brazil at odds with tradition
The origin of the Caiçaras trace back to the early mixture of indigenous tribes, European settlers and African slaves in Brazil.
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NGOs acquire land in Brazil to create wildlife corridor
The acquired land plot is located in a region of the Atlantic Forest, and will be connected to the Poço das Antas reserve by a bridge that will cross over a major highway.
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'I used to see them as a bunch of rioters': Brazil's radical farmers
One day in 2005 Zaqueu Miguel was driving his bus through the outskirts of the city of Ribeirão Preto, in south-east Brazil, when he noticed a group of people camped near a rural property.
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Cataloging Fungal Life in Antarctic Seas
Brazilian researchers report a relatively large diversity of fungi in marine ecosystems surrounding Antarctica, but warn that climate change could bring unpleasant surprises.
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Scientists predict tree death from drought in California’s Sierra Nevadas
A study in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California shows that remotely-measured changes in the canopy water content (CWC) of conifers can be used to forecast tree mortality.
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Betting on agroforestry in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
Guapiruvu is a rural neighborhood in the Vale do Ribeira, home to the largest remaining stretch of Atlantic Forest in Brazil, and listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
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Between science and fascination: An interview with Dr. Nancy Segal
How does the Zika virus cause microcephaly? Why do some people develop schizophrenia or mental disease while others don’t?
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Madrid’s Getting Close to “Plan A” Rollout to Fight Air Pollution
After years of failing to comply with EU environmental regulations, the city of Madrid, Spain, is getting close to implementing a plan to improve air quality.
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Devolvendo as línguas aos seus falantes
O linguista Aryon Rodrigues [1925-2014] estimou que, no ano 1500, existiam no Brasil perto de 1,2 mil línguas diferentes.
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Recompensar para preservar
Talvez você nunca tenha ouvido falar em serviços ecossistêmicos, também conhecidos como serviços ambientais, mas a vida humana seria impossível sem eles.
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest increased almost 60 percent in the last year
The Atlantic Forest is one of the richest and most threatened biomes in the world, but only 15 percent of its original extent is preserved.
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How São Paulo is tackling poverty and urban sprawl by bolstering farming
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — It’s before dawn, but the Instituto Chão is already bustling with bearded men and tattooed women in their 30s unloading crates of fresh fruits and vegetables from two small trucks.
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Learning to remember
Legend goes that the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos was having dinner at the house of a wealthy man in Thessaly when he received a message to go outside to meet two men who had requested to see him.
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Environment secretary of São Paulo faces controversies over management plans of protected areas
The suspension of the implementation of MPs affects over a million hectares of marine regions and oceanic islands.
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How a city in Spain got rid of its cars
It’s just a regular Wednesday morning in downtown Pontevedra, but the streets are so crowded with people that you might think a festival is going on.
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A Snake Species Not Seen Alive for 64 Years Appears in Brazil
Earlier this year, wildlife biologist Bruno Rocha received the call he’d been dreaming of his entire adult life.
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In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus
Since 2001, Brazil has almost doubled its area of protected land without increasing its conservation budget.
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The problem with exercising and losing weight
If you have ever tried to lose weight by exercising you probably know is not that easy.
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Pressure over water in Brazil puts pulp industry in the spotlight
Brazil is the world's largest producer of eucalyptus-derived pulp and the state of Espírito Santo is one of its biggest production centers.
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Barcelona Superblock Expansion Plan Takes First Steps
Barcelona, Spain, has set in motion an ambitious Urban Mobility Plan that intends to reduce space for cars by 60 percent.
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Sex, alcohol and flies
Men have been drowning their love sorrows in alcohol since the dawn of times. What probably none of those lonely broken-hearted drinkers might have imagined, is that their despair would serve as inspiration for an interesting research…
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São Paulo Street Design at the Center of Mayoral Election
With a population of over 11 million people, São Paulo, Brazil, is known to have some of the worst traffic in the world.
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Viruses at the edge of life
The definition of life is not a simple one. According to classical textbooks, “living things are born, grow, reproduce and die”.
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When Cyclists Oppose Bike Lanes
Despite little designated infrastructure, bicycle use in Madrid, Spain, has been steadily increasing at a pace of 15 to 20 percent per year since 2008.
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How universal is music language?
Music is usually considered as a universal art form. It is found in virtually all human cultures and its use is associated with many different human tasks, from the most sacred to the most profane.
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Exploring the brain of jazz musicians
Improvisation is a hallmark of jazz music, arguably its most salient feature. When they improvise, musicians compose and play simultaneously, one of the most notorious examples of spontaneous creativity.
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Can we use mathematics to prevent crime?
There is a theory in criminology that says that if a broken window in a building is left unrepaired, that building will soon have all its other windows broken.
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What if Alzheimer’s disease was caused by fungi?
More than a hundred years have passed since the German physicist Alois Alzheimer associated the traits of dementia of one of her patients with morphological changes in her brain after her death.
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Having sex with another species
Looking for a sexual partner outside your species is not very common, but that is what the males of a type of spider mite do.
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Science made me a better parent
Chefs can cook delightful meals for their families. Musicians can enliven social gatherings with friends.
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Diets to live longer
One of the first things that we are taught in school is that living things are born, grow, reproduce and die.
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Why smoking pot makes you hungry
Humans have known and used the cannabis plant for as long as 10,000 years. During this time it has been utilized to such different things as to make ropes and clothes, to induce mental states in religious rituals and to treat diseases.
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How to eat and lose weight
In the 1930s Clive McCay, a biochemist working in Ithaca, New York, made an interesting observation: rats that were kept on a low calorie diet lived longer than rats that had unrestrained access to food.
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