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One of the main names in linguistics in Brazil began his university career at almost 40 years old, after more than two decades dedicated to teaching Portuguese language in elementary and high school. Maria Helena de Moura Neves, who died in Araraquara (SP) on December 17 of last year, as a result of a stroke, had already raised her three children when she started studying Portuguese-Greek letters at Universidade Estadual Paulista ( Unesp), campus from Araraquara, in 1967. He was 91 years [...]

Many recent studies suggest that the practice of resistance exercises in polluted environments can produce undesirable effects on human health. But a work recently published in the American Journal of Physiology by scientists from the Study Group on Aerobic Performance at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports at the University of São Paulo (EEFE/USP) points out that, perhaps, this is not true for the practitioners already accustomed to vehicular pollution. The team evaluated [...]

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, based in Toronto, Canada, will promote an online event on November 18 in which five scientists and students from different countries and institutions will present work in areas such as algebra, geometry and algorithm development. . At the same time, speakers will discuss how being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender relates to their academic life. It is the third year in a row that the institute, the most important Canadian research [...]

In September, a doctored video of the National Journal, the main news on the Globo television network, won social networks. In it, presenters William Bonner and Renata Vasconcellos showed the results of a poll of intention to vote for the Presidency, but the data were inverted about who was the favorite candidate, both in the graphics and in the presenters’ speeches. The following day, the newscast made a clarification warning that the video was being used to misinform the population and [...]

After two years studying in Paris, the doctor Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz (1872-1917) returned to Brazil in 1899 and had a full schedule. In October of that year he was called to help contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in Santos, on the coast of São Paulo. In 1900, he began to build an institute in the city of Rio de Janeiro that later gained his name and became one of the main vaccine production and research institutions in the country. At the head of the Department of Public [...]

Researchers from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and University College London showed that the combination of anemia and muscle weakness in the elderly increases the risk of death by 64% for men and 117% for women. For the study, the scientists analyzed data from 5,310 English people aged 50 and over who were followed for 10 years. “For women, the risk of dying doubles when the two conditions are combined. This is a very significant increase and therefore these [...]

Combining anemia Y muscular weakness in the seniors increases the risk of death especially in women, according to a study advanced by researchers from the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar) and University College London, released this Monday in Brazil. Older males with these conditions have a 65% risk of dying within ten years, a percentage that is almost doubled for older women (117%). The study in collaboration with the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (FAPESP) [...]

THE Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo (SSP) signed this Monday, 22, an agreement to develop scientific research in the area of ​​public security. One of the objectives of the initiative, which has the participation of researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) is to measure the impact of the use of body chambers (COPs) for the Military police. The project will last for five years and will have budget of [...]

Australia, South Korea, Chile, USA and Brazil are together in a daring project that promises to take the title of the most powerful observatory of all time from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We are talking about the Giant Magellanic Telescope (GMT), a megastructure that will be housed at the Las Campanas Observatory, in the Atacama Desert, in Chile. According to the Giant Magellanic Telescope Organization (GMTO), the program has just secured a new infusion of $205 million in funding [...]