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Mushrooms and other fungi spread their spores in a more localised way than once thought and more similar to how animals and plant species migrate, new research has found. Published in the journal Nature, it is the largest ever global air sampling project and analyses how the climate affects the growth and spread of fungi. The study used air samplers to collect airborne fungal spores at 47 locations on every continent apart from Antarctica over a two-year period. Most fungi spread by [...]

Imaging the hot turbulence of aircraft propulsion systems may now be possible with sturdy sheets of composite materials that twist light beams, according to research led by the University of Michigan and Air Force Research Laboratory. The sheets were produced with a new manufacturing method that opens possibilities beyond aircraft design, as it enables new classes of materials to be used in polarization optics. While the team demonstrated high temperature tolerance, new mechanical, [...]

The new efforts in socio-environmental research invest in transdisciplinarity through the São Paulo School of Advanced Science in Transdisciplinarity for Transformative Changes, a FAPESP financing line. The objective is to unite the efforts of different actors to face contemporary environmental challenges. Cristina Adams, professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH) at USP and researcher at the Institute of Energy and Environment (IEE) and the Forest Governance [...]

Members of the University of Birmingham’s new Brazil Institute marked its launch with a four-city tour to strengthen the University’s research and education partnerships across Brazil. Led by Professor Robin Mason ORB, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International), researchers travelled to Brazil to meet key partners in Belém, Brasilia, Campinas, and São Paulo. The group included experts in energy, primary healthcare and public health, international security, cognitive [...]

On April 4th, Unit II of the USP-IPEN Incubator was inaugurated on the USP campus in the Capital. With 29 public and private institutions involved, the objective of the new space is to attract and host innovative ventures related to the Life Sciences area, encouraging the participation of startups. Rector Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Junior welcomed the initiative, which values ​​entrepreneurship at the University: “USP needs to always be linked to the desires of society, its needs and [...]

Materials with enhanced thermal conductivity are critical for the development of advanced devices to support applications in communications, clean energy and aerospace. But in order to engineer materials with this property, scientists need to understand how phonons, or quantum units of the vibration of atoms, behave in a particular substance. “Phonons are quite important for studying new materials because they govern several material properties such as thermal [...]

USP’s Faculty of Public Health (FSP) presents research that discusses community responses to Covid-19 based on experiences observed in countries such as Germany, Brazil, Canada and Peru. This action is part of an international research project that has a partnership between the University of São Paulo, the University of Toronto, the University of Giessen and the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Deisy Ventura, professor at the USP Health Law Research Center (Cepedisa) at [...]

The report, titled “The Impact of COVID-19 on Education, Food Play-Leisure and Related Adaptations for Children and Young People,” outlines how slow government action and policy gaps in efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19 had negative impacts on children and young people’s health and welfare. The report is part of the first stage of the PANEX-Youth research project which aims to understand how young people adapted to Covid-19 and to assess the impacts in the UK, South [...]

The study, published in Nature Communications, has revealed for the first time how genetic and environmental factors come together to form a cleft lip or palate in a developing foetus. Cleft lip, with or without cleft palate, is the most common craniofacial malformation seen at birth, affecting one in 700 live births. It can have devastating consequences for babies and their families, as the infants may experience difficulty feeding, speaking, and hearing, and may be at increased risk for [...]