The moment of truth has come for the flotilla of a spacecraft that was sent to Mars last July. This Tuesday (9th) the Al-Amal spacecraft…
Access to fossils needs to be democratized, says the discoverer of the greatest Brazilian dinosaur – 02/06/2021 – Science
A strange chain of coincidences seems to have predestined the geologist Luiz Carlos Borges Ribeiro (59) to become a dinosaur hunter. He was not only…
“Hair” formed by bacteria have contributed to the development of complex life under the sea – 06/02/2021 – Reinaldo José Lopes
Let the reader, if they can, imagine the ocean floor 563 million years ago – before whales, before the great aquatic reptiles of the age…
The B side of morality – 02/03/2021 – Silvia Corrêa
I spent a few days in the southern United States earlier this year. He was in Alabama, the heart of the Conservative constituency, when Republican…
If art is a math problem – basic research
By Edgard Pimentel Newton’s binomial is as beautiful as Venus de Milo * * Mathematics inspired and favored art. Perspective, proportions, and symmetry are fundamental…
Geometric Problems of Classical Greece: Angular Trisection – 02/02/2021 – Marcelo Viana
The three classic problems of geometry – multiplying the cube, dividing the angle into three, and squaring the circle – caught the attention of the…
Elon Musk is arm wrestling with the US government to test the Messenger Sidereal missile
What would Elon Musk be without bullshit? The youngest is with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), the agency responsible for the licensing of commercial rocket…
So far diverse, current crocodiles are remains of a group that walked side by side with dinosaurs – 01/31/2021 – science
The reptiles known as crocodiles, alligators, and gavials (animals with a very long and thin snout found in India) are today a pale representation of…
Brazil threatens to become an immense Manaus – 01/30/2021 – Marcelo Leite
We’re in trouble. There is no doubt that data show that we have the worst-performing government when confronted with Covid. However, we all know that…
Prehistoric people developed rich agriculture using natural fertilizers in Atacama – 01/29/2021 – Science
Centuries before contact with Europeans, indigenous groups turned part of the Atacama Desert in Chile into a rich agricultural area, from which corn, pumpkin and…
