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Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old
Publicado em 15 abril 2024
That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old.
Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.”
The researchers, hoping to learn more about the plants to better protect them from pests and climate change, found that the species emerged around 600,000 years ago through natural crossbreeding of two [...]
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Plastic rocks found on remote island alarm scientists
Publicado emThe geology of Brazil's volcanic Trindade Island has fascinated scientists for years, but the discovery of rocks made from plastic debris in this remote turtle refuge is sparking alarm as researchers say it's evidence that humans are influencing earth's geological cycle. Reutersver notícia -
Bilateral bonding: fuelling the Canada-Brazil relationship
Publicado em 11 agosto 2011Artigo assinado por Lorna Jean Edmonds e Ted Hewitt, diretor executivo de relações internacionais e vice-presidente de pesquisa e relações internacionais da University of Western Ontario, respectivamente, fala da visita do Primeiro Ministro do Canadá, Stephen Harper, ao Brasil e de acordo de cooperação assinado entre a FAPESP e as universidades de Toronto e de Western Ontario, voltado ao intercâmbio de pesquisadores de instituições de ensino superior e pesquisa, públicas ou privadas, no Estado de São Paulo e do Canadá, afiliados às universidades de Toronto e de Western Ontario.ver notícia