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A Life of Science: Roberto A. Salmeron
The professor Roberto Salmeron, 90 years-old, built a major international career in the field of elementary particle physics and has made decisive contributions to improve the policy for science and...
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Biota Education focuses the cerrado
The biological diversity of the cerrado was the theme of the conferences on May 16th, in São Paulo. The speakers were Vanderlan Bolzani, professor at the Paulista State University (Unesp) at...
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Biota V: Researchers talk about Caatinga’s biodiversity and evolution
The caatinga is a dry forest which ranges over about 845.000 square quilometers, accupying 11% of the Brazilian territory. Rainfall there may not reach 1.000 millimeters a year, and drought can last...
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‘Biodiversity: concept, values and threats’ in Biota Education
February was the beginning of the Conference Cicle Biota-FAPESP Education. Result of an initiative of the Biota-FAPESP Program, together with Pesquisa FAPESP, the talk series aims to contribute to...
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Biota Education II deals with pampa biodiversity
Fire and farming have had an important role in maintaining the pampa’s biological diversity. Seems strange? This unusual view of environmental conservation was the subject of the second meeting of...
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Biota Education III focuses on the pantanal
The occupation and land use by farming in the areas next to the pantanal plains are one of the main threats to conservation of the local biodiversity. This is what José Sabino, from the Anhanguera...
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Driverless vehicle may be a reality in 20 years
Picture a driver reading the day’s news while commuting. This would happen inside the moving car, without risking a collision or veering off the road. The scene, which may seem out of science...
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Analysis of the Voynich manuscript
Brazilian physicists used their own text analysis technique to study the Voynich manuscript, a mysterious book supposedly written in early 15th century in an unknown alphabet. The expectation is to...
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Atlantic Forest is the theme of the 6th Biota Education
One of the most degraded ecosystems in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is also one of the richest and most diverse environments in the world. That is why it has been included in the biodiversity...
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Biota-FAPESP Education discusses importance of Amazonian forest
On September 19th, the biota-FAPESP Conference Cycle focused on the importance of the Amazon, the planet’s largest remaining block of tropical forest. On this video, the speakers stress the most...
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Biota-FAPESP addresses marine and coastal environments
The second to last meeting of the Biota-FAPESP Conference Cycle addressed marine and coastal environments: areas composed of beaches, rocky intertidal zones, dunes and cliffs extended over a coastal...
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Biota: Biodiversity in areas altered by man
The ninth and last meeting of the Biota-FAPESP Education Conference Cycle addressed environments which have been altered by human action, such as cities and rural zones. Although degraded, those...
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Laboratory Sun
Light patterns that show up around the Sun, technically called parhelia, are a natural phenomenon that has fascinated mankind for at least 2300 years, since Aristotle’s time. In cold regions,...
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Suspended by sound
Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) have developed a device capable of levitating objects using sound. Compared to previous levitators, the newly developed allows greater control of...
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Geogenomics
Geogenomics is a new discipline aimed at explaining biological diversity in tropical rainforests. With projects focused on the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest, biologists and geologists explain how...
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Vitamin enriched Manioc
Selective breeding of different varieties of plants has allowed a team of scientists from the Agronomy Institute of Campinas (IAC), to introduce a yellow colored, higher quality cassava. According...
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The Country side Economic Landscape
In the 1970s, railroads were replaced by a road network that intensified São Paulo’s countryside economic activity. Geographer Eliseu Savério Sposito, from the Paulista State University (Unesp) in...
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Visible Matter Chemistry Sodium In Water With Phenolphthalein
Do you know what happens when sodium is placed in water with phenolphthalein (pH indicator)? See the colorful chemical reaction. This video is the first of Pesquisa FAPESP’s special series on...
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Visible Matter Chemistry Fluorescein
Another video from the special series about chemistry produced by Pesquisa FAPESP. See what happens when drops of fluorescein and quinine solutions in glycerol reach the water/vaseline interface in...
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The past emerges
Researchers discuss the importance of the collection avaiable on the Political Memories and the Resistance website, maintained by the Public Archives of the State of São Paulo. It allows access to...
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Profile: Paulo Saldiva
Pathologist Paulo Saldiva began studying the harmful effects of urban pollution on health 30 years ago. In this profile, he comments on São Paulo city’s effects on its residents’ life quality.
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Strength in union
Physicists and biologists investigate how Xylella fastidiosa bacteria assemble into biofilms. In the video produced by Pesquisa Fapesp, physicists Mônica Cotta and Carlos Lenz Cesar from the...
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Profile: Emilio Moran
As head of a Project on the impacts of Belo Monte hydroelectric power plant’s construction, anthropologist Emilio Moran speaks on Amazonia deforestation since the 1970’s. He also comments on the...
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Citizenship & abstinence
Crack addiction is a serious problem. To treat it requires multiple and integrated measures. In São Paulo, a State and a City programs employ distinct stategies to deal with it. A technique tested...
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The people of Lagoa Santa
A team of researchers of different fields work on an archaeological site at Lapa do Santo, Minas Gerais, to unearth and document evidence of life and death of the population which lived there...
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Disappearance and struggle
In 1990, 1.049 skeletons were removed from a clandestine mass grave opened in Perus, in the ouskirts of São Paulo. Samuel Ferreira, Javier Amadeo and Márcia Hattori, from the Perus Task Force (GTP),...
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Hunting circuits
Neuroscientist Ivan de Araújo, from Yale University, speaks on a study showing how neural pathways stemming from the central amygdala control predators’ aggressive behavior. Subtitles in English are...
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A map of scientific expertise
The Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo (Aciesp) has issued a survey showing the concentration of researchers, fields of knowledge, and impact of scientific production in São Paulo State....
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Suspended cell gardens
Biologist Alexandre Bruni-Cardoso, professor at the Chemistry Institute of the University of São Paulo (IQ-USP), tells how 3D cell cultures, associated to state-of-the-art microscopy techniques,...
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