Opinion – Marcelo Viana: D’Alembert, mathematician and Enlightenment thinker

Opinion – Marcelo Viana: D’Alembert, mathematician and Enlightenment thinker

Frenchman Jean Le Rond d’Alembert (1717–1783) is one of the most brilliant thinkers of the Enlightenment. Mathematician, physicist and philosopher,…
Italy approves measures for big techs to remunerate journalistic vehicles for the use of publications

Italy approves measures for big techs to remunerate journalistic vehicles for the use of publications

The agency that regulates the communications sector in Italy approved a series of criteria that give the green light for…
Opinion: Testimony: chip implanted in the hand is useless

Opinion: Testimony: chip implanted in the hand is useless

At the end of 2017, I decided to implant a biochip in my left hand. The process of approaching a…
Biohacker movement grows in public universities with health applications

Biohacker movement grows in public universities with health applications

Professors at public universities have turned into biohackers to deal with health problems. Informally, they intervene in their own well-being…
Study challenges idea that the discovery of agriculture was a disaster for health

Study challenges idea that the discovery of agriculture was a disaster for health

The idea that the discovery of agriculture and animal husbandry was a disaster for the health of our species is…
Privacy has been extinguished and today it is a zombie, says academic

Privacy has been extinguished and today it is a zombie, says academic

These are uncertain times for Silicon Valley. Tech companies are laying off employees they hired in the pandemic. Twitter, under…
The ‘global stool bank’ scientists are creating in Switzerland

The ‘global stool bank’ scientists are creating in Switzerland

Different species of bacteria are at risk of extinction — and the best way to preserve them is to deposit…
Brazilian has name excluded from article in Science magazine

Brazilian has name excluded from article in Science magazine

For any Brazilian researcher, publishing a work in the journal Science –one of the most prestigious academic journals in the…
Theory that Covid emerged in the laboratory is harmful, says author of ‘Contagion’ in new book

Theory that Covid emerged in the laboratory is harmful, says author of ‘Contagion’ in new book

After interviewing almost a hundred scientists from all over the world and reconstructing step by step the process of discovering…
Great scientific discoveries are increasingly rare, study finds

Great scientific discoveries are increasingly rare, study finds

Miracle vaccines. Videophones in our pockets. Reusable rockets. Our technological bounty and the scientific progress related to it seem undeniable…