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Bioengineer (Reino Unido)
Em 2026: 69 notícias
Desde 1995: 647 notícias
Cover Crops Shield Brazilian Farms From Droughts and Floods While Lifting Yields
Publicado em 29 de outubro de 2026
Farms in southern Brazil that diversified their crops and kept their soil permanently covered with vegetation weathered a run of severe droughts and historic floods far better than neighboring conventional operations, according to research conducted by the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture at the University of São Paulo. Over three growing seasons marked by climatic extremes, diversified systems reached yields as much as 76 percent above the state average, while farms relying [...]
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FAPESP Week Netherlands: São Paulo and Dutch researchers meet in Leiden to build joint science partnerships
Publicado em 27 outubro 2026Researchers, academic leaders and entrepreneurs from the Brazilian state of São Paulo and the Netherlands will gather at Leiden University from October 27 through October 29 for the 28th edition of FAPESP Week, an international symposium designed to expand scientific and technological cooperation between the two regions. Leiden, home to the Netherlands’ oldest university and located roughly 40 kilometers from Amsterdam, will serve as the hub for discussions on joint funding opportunities in [...]ver notícia -
Invasive trees fade as young tropical forests mature, large study finds
Publicado em 25 outubro 2026The thick stands of fast-growing foreign trees that colonize abandoned pastures across the tropics are not the permanent problem many restoration ecologists have feared. An international analysis of more than 1,500 regenerating forest plots across the Americas has found that the early dominance of non-native trees in secondary forests gives way, over time, to native species as the canopy closes and light becomes scarce. The study, published in the journal Nature Plants, brought together [...]ver notícia -
Brazilian cancer biobank targets precision prevention for diverse population
Publicado em 21 outubro 2026A cancer biobank being assembled at Hospital de Amor in Barretos, São Paulo state, could provide the evidence needed to adapt genetic risk assessment and cancer prevention to Brazil’s diverse population. The initiative has enrolled 4,062 participants and collected nearly 40,000 blood samples, with plans to recruit at least 8,000 people over the next two years, including equal numbers of participants with and without cancer. Researchers are initially studying breast, colorectal and cervical [...]ver notícia -
Cancer Drug Candidates Show Dual Power Against Malaria Parasite
Publicado em 11 outubro 2026Malaria continues to exact a devastating toll on global health, and the parasite responsible for the deadliest form of the disease is steadily outmaneuvering the drugs designed to destroy it. Now, a team of researchers at the University of São Paulo’s School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCF-USP) in Brazil has reported that a family of molecules originally developed for their anti-cancer activity can eliminate Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes the most lethal form of malaria, at [...]ver notícia -
3D imaging techniques reveal hidden damage in soybean seeds
Publicado em 11 setembro 2026Scientists in Brazil have demonstrated that a combination of three non-destructive imaging techniques, visible-spectrum (RGB) photography, X-ray radiography, and three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), can detect and characterize hidden damage in soybean seeds that conventional quality tests frequently miss. The study, published in Smart Agricultural Technology, comes at a critical moment: Brazil is the world’s largest soybean producer and exporter, with an estimated harvest of [...]ver notícia -
A survey of data augmentation methods in multimodal frameworks
Publicado em 06 setembro 2026Machine learning systems have become remarkably good at understanding the world when they are allowed to look at it from more than one angle. A medical diagnosis model that reads radiology images alongside clinical notes, an autonomous vehicle that fuses camera frames with lidar point clouds, a social media classifier that weighs text, images and audio together—these multimodal systems consistently outperform their single-modality counterparts. Yet building them has always carried a stubborn [...]ver notícia -
Harnessing WRKY Genes to Boost Potato Stress Tolerance and Yield
Publicado em 30 agosto 2026The potato has earned its place as one of humanity’s most dependable staples: calorie-dense, fast-maturing and adaptable enough to help feed well over a billion people every day. Yet the tuber that once seemed almost indestructible is now under pressure from nearly every direction at once. Heat waves that sabotage tuber formation, droughts that shrink harvests, unseasonal cold, salt-encrusted soils, cadmium-contaminated fields and the perpetually looming threat of late blight increasingly [...]ver notícia -
Large Mammals Transform Atlantic Forest Soil Chemistry, Boosting Fertility
Publicado em 24 agosto 2026In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, large mammals are doing far more than moving through the trees. Tapirs, peccaries, deer, and agoutis are acting as living agents of soil transformation, changing the chemistry of the forest floor and potentially increasing the availability of nutrients needed by plants. A new study published in Ecological Monographs has found that the presence of these animals alters litter decomposition, reduces harmful soil acidity, changes the availability of calcium and [...]ver notícia -
Unexpected quantum oscillations expose new physics in topological insulator
Publicado em 14 agosto 2026In a result that could reshape how scientists understand electron transport in topological materials, researchers have observed an unusual form of quantum oscillation in zirconium pentatelluride, or ZrTe₅, under magnetic fields approaching 60 tesla and temperatures just fractions of a degree above absolute zero. Instead of following the regular pattern expected from conventional metals, the oscillations continued deep into a regime where standard theory predicts that they should disappear. [...]ver notícia