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Call for proposals The United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany join the new call for the Amazon+10 initiative With the new international contributions, the scientific mission announcement, launched in collaboration with CNPq, now has a total funding of approximately R$94 million The institutions will support researchers from their respective countries interested in developing studies related to the Brazilian Amazon (Image: Disclosure) FAPESP Agency – Four foreign agencies [...]

A flow into the Mediterranean Sea is the most likely hypothesis for the disappearance of Paratethis. This phenomenon occurred between 6.7 and 6.9 million years ago. Today, the Aral Sea, Caspian Sea, and Black Sea are lakes formed from what remains of Paratethys. The name is associated with Greek mythology. Thetis, the goddess of water sources, was the wife of Oceanus, the god of rivers. In the Mesozoic era (between 250 million and 65 million years ago), Tethys was the sea that separated the [...]

The Amazonia+10 research promotion initiative received funding from international funds there Research Promotion Initiative Amazon+10 The partnership was announced on Wednesday (December 13, 2023). UK Research and Innovation And this British Council, both from the United Kingdom, for a total of R$30 million. Both the organizations will provide financial assistance to the project. disclosure At the inaugural function of the National Forum of Confab (National Council of National Research Support [...]

The Amazon+10 initiative received a contribution of over R$30 million from the United Kingdom. A partnership established with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the British Council in the United Kingdom will result in financial contributions to the programme. These resources will be made available through the International Science Partnership Fund (ISPF), linked to the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), which aims to promote research and innovation initiatives. [...]

A study by Fundaçção Getulio Vargas (FGV) and the University of Glasgow, which developed an app to monitor floods in vulnerable areas, won the Celebrating Impact Prize in the Best Social Impact category, which aims to recognize projects that have created a significant social impact. The annual award is given by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), a research council in the fields of economics and social sciences linked to UK Research and Innovation, the UK [...]

Nature in Madagascar, an island in southeastern Africa slightly larger than mainland France, is so unusual that 82% of its plant species and 90% of its vertebrates are endemic, and found only there. A picture of the country’s biological wealth, as well as the main threats, can be found in two studies published in the journal Sciences By researchers from around the world, including Brazil. said Thais Geddes, co-author of the book of articles. Geddes is a researcher at the Institute of [...]

machine stronger than James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) You should start working by the end of this decade. We are talking about the Giant Magellanic Telescope (GMT), which has just received a new investment of US$205 million to speed up its construction. The main mirror of the equipment has a diameter of 25 meters, and consists of seven sections with a diameter of 8.4 meters. It will have, in total, a light-gathering area ten times larger than that of James Webb, providing images Four [...]

As of September, FAPESP will host the Executive Secretariat of the Global Research Council (GRC), a virtual organization comprising the heads of more than 60 science and engineering funding agencies from countries on all continents. The announcement was made yesterday (May 31) on the first day of the GRC’s Annual Meeting, which is under way in Panama until Friday (June 3). The GRC was established in 2012. Its first Executive Secretary was from the United States National Science Foundation [...]

A study by the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar) pointed to a relationship Functional decline in the elderly between muscle weakness and abdominal fatWhen a person loses the ability to perform simple actions such as moving around or holding objects. The study, conducted by Roberta de Oliveira Maximo, a graduate student in physiotherapy, was monitored using a database from the University College of London in the United Kingdom. 3,800 English seniors for 8 years. During [...]