Little Enceladus found a “phosphine” that she could call her own. One group of researchers suggest that the presence of methane in the amounts observed…
Richard C. Lewontin (1929-2021), pioneer of anti-racist genetics – 07/17/2021 – Marcelo Leite
A privilege of this profession is the opportunity to meet some intellectual heroes in person. During a sabbatical at Harvard in the 1990s, the evolutionary…
Humans’ relationship with marijuana is as old as agriculture in the east – 7/16/2021 – Science
The origins of marijuana (Cannabis sativa) go back to China 12,000 years ago, making the relationship between humans and plants as old as agriculture itself…
The data (right?) Lie – basic science
by Edgard Pimentel Correlations, causalities and wrong conclusions * A good strategy for getting information about the world and preparing for it is to observe.…
Scientists’ resistance to denial is a question of ethics, says Renato Janine Ribeiro – 7/16/2021 – Science
The federal government’s denial of the pandemic prompted many Brazilian scientists to take clearer political positions. For the elected President of the SBPC (Brazilian Society…
So far, scientists have been making atoms better with the help of algorithms – 07/14/2021 – Science
The best image of an atom to date was obtained by scientists at Cornell University (USA) using a lensless microscope and an advanced algorithm that…
The Mathematics of the Periodic Table – 07/13/2021 – Marcelo Viana
The periodic table has two elements in the first row, eight in the second and third, 18 in the fourth and fifth, and 32 in…
A vaccine thief is a life thief – 07/13/2021 – Atila Iamarino
Now that the CPI has shown how and why Covid-19 vaccines have been denied, it is time to take stock of what has been withheld…
Richard Branson is an astronaut with an asterisk? A brief history of the line that delimits the boundary of space – Sidereal Messenger
With the argument between Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos about who got into space first, a new phase of discussion begins: Where is the limit…
It’s not space travel, says Neil Tyson on CNN, but it applies to tourists – 11/7/2021 – Nelson de Sá
About the angry escape of businessman Richard Branson, presenter Fareed Zakaria asked the American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who had replaced Carl Sagan in popularizing…
