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Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – In Brazil, where about 16 wild animals become roadkill every second, a computer scientist has come up with a futuristic solution to this everyday problem: using AI to alert drivers to their presence. Direct strikes on the vast South American country's extensive road network are the top threat to numerous species, forced to live in ever-closer proximity with humans. According to the Brazilian Center for Road Ecology (CBEE), some 475 million vertebrate [...]

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 [...]

Scientists have finally managed to record the ear-piercing screams that a frog in the Amazon rainforest makes to defend against predators. It’s the first reported case of the use of ultrasound by an amphibian in South America, according to a study published in the journal Acta Ethologica. While ultrasound can be ear-piercing for many animals, it is inaudible to humans. “Some potential predators of amphibians, such as bats, rodents and small primates, are able to emit and [...]

A team of international scientists has published a description of a novel jellyfish species with a unique red stomach resembling the Cross of St. George. About the jellyfish: The St. George's Cross Medusa, named after the red cross emblem of England, has been identified as Santjordia pagesi (refers to Saint George in Catalan), a newly described species of medusa. Compared to other medusa species, the St. George's Cross Medusa is relatively smaller, measuring approximately four inches [...]

Scientists have identified a form of exercise that can help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The new study carried out on mice led to the findings that regular resistance training can help prevent or at least delay the onset of symptoms for the age-related neurological condition. It could also lead to affordable therapies for people at risk of the disease. Although dementia patients are unlikely to go on long daily runs or perform other high-intensity aerobic exercises, [...]

There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil. So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean. Santos first found the plastic rocks in 2019, when she traveled to the island to research her doctoral thesis on a completely different [...]

Children with overprotective parents tend to live shorter lives, a recent study has discovered. The longitudinal study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, analyzed data from nearly 1,000 individuals — 496 men and 445 women — who were born in the 1950s and '60s and died between 2007 and 2018. Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil and University College London (UCL) in the U.K. conducted the study. They analyzed the [...]

Funding round represents one of the largest in project history, with investments from Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard University, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), The University of Texas at Austin, University of Arizona, University of Chicago Image quality comparison of a small patch of sky as the James Webb Space Telescope would observe it (left), and a simulation of the Giant Magellan Telescope using adaptive optics to achieve diffraction limited seeing from the [...]

CINCINNATI, May 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Water Vaccines, Inc. (“BWV” or “Blue Water Vaccines” or “the Company”) a biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines, announces a collaboration with the multidisciplinary Center for R&D in Immunobiologics (“CeRDI”), an initiative of Instituto Butantan (“Butantan”). Through this partnership, Butantan, a leading Brazilian producer of immunobiologic products and vaccines, and BWV [...]