Category: Science
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Brazilian Scientists Awarded for Alzheimer’s Research
Scientists from all over the world are trying to find new approaches to Alzheimer’s disease, and two Brazilian laboratories have been standing out in this race. Recently, researchers Mychael Lourenço, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and Wagner Brum, from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), were awarded by…
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WhatsApp announces parental controls for accounts of children under 13
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The messaging app WhatsApp announced on Wednesday (11) that it will roll out, in the coming months, a new feature that will allow parents and guardians to manage their children’s accounts under 13 years old. According to Meta, the company that controls the app, parents, mothers or guardians will be able to use the new…
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Critical Minerals Are Brazil’s New Oil, Says Silveira
The Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, stated on Wednesday (11) that critical and strategic minerals represent a historic opportunity for Brazil and could become the country’s “new oil”. The statement was made during a public hearing of the Mines and Energy Committee (CME) of the Chamber of Deputies, in a debate on the…
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Critical minerals are Brazil’s new oil, says Silveira
The Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, stated on Wednesday (11) that critical and strategic minerals represent a historic opportunity for Brazil and could become the country’s “new oil”. The statement was made during a public hearing of the Mines and Energy Committee (CME) of the Chamber of Deputies, in a debate on the…
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AI-Powered Cooking Robot Wins International Robotics Award
Recent advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are bringing the world inventions and applications that seemed impossible until recently. Proof of this is that a robot kitchen won the Robotics Award 2026, an international robotics award, presented in Hannover, Germany. The creation of the company GoodBytz, based in Hamburg, also in Germany, needs just…
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Community Transforms Environmental Landscape of Guanabara Bay (RJ)
Community involvement from traditional peoples is transforming the environmental landscape of mangroves in Guanabara Bay through cleanup projects and environmental education initiatives.
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Waking Up at 3 AM Is Normal: Sleeping Straight Through Is a Modern Invention, Not an Evolution
Regarding sleep, there are some deeply rooted beliefs, such as falling asleep in less than five minutes being good (spoiler: no way), that we need to sleep eight hours (we’re probably sleeping too much already), or that sleeping straight through the entire night is ideal. But check this out: that last one is a myth…
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A New Once-a-Day Pill Brings Hope to HIV’s ‘Forgotten Population’
Is there a once-a-day pill to keep me healthy? That’s a question that Dr. Chloe Orkin hears a lot from her older HIV patients, who take many medications every day to keep the virus under control. “They keep asking: ‘Why can’t I have a single pill? Or can I take injections?’ And you have to…
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A New Daily Pill Promises to Help HIV’s ‘Forgotten Population’
Is there a pill I can take every day to stay healthy? That’s a question that Dr. Chloe Orkin frequently hears from her elderly HIV patients, who take several medications daily to keep the virus under control. “They keep asking: ‘Why can’t I take just one pill? Or why can’t I take injections?’ And we…
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Brazilian study warns of accelerated melting of polar ice caps
A study titled Planeta em Degelo (“Thawing Planet”), based on new data from the Brazilian Antarctic Program (Proantar), warns of the acceleration in glacier melting, which totaled 9,179 gigatons since 1976, threatening coastal cities primarily. Nearly all (98%) of this volume reached the oceans in liquid form since 1990, and 41% just from 2015 to…