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Trégua na guerra tarifária entre EUA e China traz novos desafios comerciais para o Brasil
Nova fase de negociações entre os dois gigantes comerciais impacta diretamente países dependentes de exportações. Mas, ao ...
Novo papa reúne atributos que podem ampliar influência diplomática do Vaticano na geopolítica mundial
Relevância da Santa Sé no cenário geopolítico se ancora na autoridade moral e na capacidade de mobilizar uma linguagem ética ...
Why protecting wildland is crucial to American freedom and identity
Thanks to the power of writer Wallace Stegner, Americans have for decades been able to put words to the importance wilderness ...
How Asian American became a racial grouping – and why many with Asian roots don’t identify with the term these days
The concept of ‘Asian Americans,’ created in the 1960s by student activists as a way to move past denigrating labels, is ...
Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists
Missions that return asteroid samples bring home more than just very expensive dust. These samples can provide valuable ...
Researchers uncovered hundreds of genes linked to OCD, providing clues about how it changes the brain − new research
Researchers examined the DNA of over 53,000 people with OCD and over 2 million people without OCD, gathering data that could ...
What do bacon and faeces have in common? They can produce the same feeling of disgust
What do crispy bacon, a juicy beef steak, human flesh and faeces have in common? They’re all foods that trigger a powerful ...
Could gravity be evidence that the universe is a computer simulation? My new study suggests so
We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps ...
Type 5 diabetes is a newly recognised disease – here are all the types of diabetes you need to know about
Type 5 diabetes has just been recognised as a distinct form of diabetes by the International Diabetes Federation. Despite the ...
AI can scan vast numbers of social media posts during disasters to guide first responders
Natural disasters prompt a flood of social media posts. AI can help sift the wheat of helpful information from the chaff of ...
Where tomorrow’s scientists prefer to live − and where they’d rather not
A survey of graduate students found that California and New York are the most desirable destinations. Over half of ...
Lim Cosmic Rhapsody: this orchestral journey to outer space aims to deliver hope amid global crisis – but falls short
Lim Cosmic Rhapsody is a piano concerto, which aspires to tell, according to the work’s creative director Susan Lim, a “compelling story of climate change and humanity’s search for solutions beyond ...