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Bucchi, O Frango de Newton e outros encontros entre saberes e sabores (2024)

O Frango de Newton e outros encontros entre saberes e sabores By Massimiano Bucchi Lenus Editora, 2024 Há mais de séculos que as atividades de preparação de alimentos atraem estudiosos da química, da...

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Massive DNA sequencing effort reveals how colonization shaped Brazil’s genetic diversity

Source: Science With people of multiple origins and ethnicities, Brazil has long been recognized as one of the most genetically diverse countries in the world. Now, the largest genomic study of the...

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Schaefer, The Soils of Brazil (2023)

The Soils of Brazil Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer Springer International Publishing 2023 This book represents the first comprehensive edition, in English, on the soils of Brazil, in the challenge of...

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Brazilian Geography: In Theory and in the Streets (2022)

Brazilian Geography: In Theory and in the Streets Marco Antonio Mitidiero Junior, Rubén C. Lois González Springer Nature Singapore 2022 The history of science is necessary for the process of doing...

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Löwy, Viruses and Reproductive Injustice (2024)

Viruses and Reproductive Injustice Zika in Brazil By Ilana Löwy · 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press   Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across...

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Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness (2024)

Through the Brazilian Wilderness - An Epic Adventure of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition Traversing the Enigmatic Amazon Rainforest By Theodore Roosevelt  Good Press, 2024 In "Through...

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América Latina producirá nueva vacuna contra la neumonía

Fuente: SciDev [RÍO DE JANEIRO] Un acuerdo entre la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), la empresa Pfizer, el gobierno argentino y la farmacéutica Sinergium-Biotech hará posible la...

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Freitas, The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History (2025)

The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History Edited by Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc University of Texas Press, 2025  In colonial Brazil, observers frequently complained that Portuguese settlers...

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Borga, Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil: Economic Thought in Critical Interpretation (2021)

Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil: Economic Thought in Critical Interpretation Bruno Borja, Carla Curty, Jaime León, Maria Mello de Malta, eds. Brill, 2021...

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Brewer, Jayme Tiomno: A Life for Science, a Life for Brazil (2021)

  Jayme Tiomno: A Life for Science, a Life for Brazil By William Dean Brewer, Alfredo Tiomno Tolmasquim · 2021 Springer International Publishing Jayme Tiomno (1920-2011) was one of the most...

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Por uma história da informática no Brasil

Por uma história da informática no Brasil Os precursores das tecnologias computacionais (1958-1972) By Marcelo Vianna, Lucas de Almeida Pereira   Paco e Littera (2023) Este livro traz contribuições...

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A viagem de Alfred Russel Wallace ao Brasil

A viagem de Alfred Russel Wallace ao Brasil uma aplicação de história da ciência no ensino de Biologia By ROSA ANDREA LOPES DE SOUZA   Editora Dialética (2021) Esta obra, de abordagem inclusiva da...

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A Revista Brasileira e a História da Divulgação da Ciência no Brasil Oitocentista

A Revista Brasileira e a História da Divulgação da Ciência no Brasil Oitocentista By Moema de Rezende Vergara · Editora Appris (2020) O objetivo do presente livro é destacar a ciência no processo de...

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COVID-19 hospitalizations pushing Brazil's health system to its limits

Source: MercoPress   Brazil's National Council of Secretaries of Health (Conass) Wednesday reported that intensive care units (ICUs) at eight States were full up to over 80% of their capacity with...

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Brazil in the Global Nuclear Order, 1945–2018

By Carlo Patti Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.   The first comprehensive and definitive history of Brazil's decision to give up the nuclear weapon option. Why do countries capable of...

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Cuts imperil Brazil's stake in astronomy observatories (2017)

Source: Science Magazine SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Strapped for cash after 3 years of austerity budgets, Brazilian scientists are bracing for an even harsher year ahead. The federal government is planning to...

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Brazil’s scientists face 90% budget cut

Source: Nature   A proposal to shrink Brazil’s federal science budget by more than 90% has now been approved by our president. The immediate future of all ongoing projects, including thousands of...

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As melhores universidades do Brasil, segundo ranking britânico

Fuente: UOL   O Brasil é o país com o maior número de universidades que compõem a edição 2021 do ranking latino-americano do Times Higher Education (THE), um dos principais indicadores de educação...

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Brazil: Bolsonaro insists his daughter will not be jabbed

Source: MercoPress Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Monday insisted his 11-year-old daughter will not be taking any COVID-19 vaccine. “I hope there is no interference by the law, I hope so, because...

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Scientists Warn That The Amazon’s Tipping Point Puts Brazil’s Agribusiness, Energy Sector At Risk

Source: The RisingOvershooting an Amazon rainforest-to-savanna tipping point would be “catastrophic” to Brazil’s economic powerhouses, experts have said — with especially far-reaching impacts for the...

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Lagartijas y conejos aumentan presencia del transmisor del Chagas

Fuente: SciDev   Un estudio reveló que una gran población de conejos silvestres y de lagartijas aumentaría la cantidad de vinchucas —el insecto que transmite el Mal de Chagas—, y por ende incrementa...

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Warning to Falkland Islanders traveling to Brazil: vaccinate against yellow fever

Source: MercoPressWith the establishment of the new airlink to Brazil, the Stanley hospital has issued a reminder to travellers from the Falkland Islands to ensure they are vaccinated against yellow...

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Brazil opens ‘spectacular’ Antarctic research base, but will it have the cash to fulfill its potential?

Source: Science MagazineSÃO PAULO—Brazil will officially open its new scientific outpost in Antarctica this week, 8 years after a fire destroyed its original base there. The new, $ 100 million station...

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Hugh Cagle, Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700

Source: Society for the Social History of MedicineHugh Cagle, Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700 , Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press,  2018. Pp. xix + ...

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Brasil é o único país da América Latina com acesso gigabit

Fuente: Minha OperadoraSegundo pesquisa da Viavi Solutions, o Brasil é o único país da América Latina que conta com internet com velocidade de gigabit. No relatório, a operadora TIM, por meio do seu...

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