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Magnetic reconnection maximized by turbulence explains formation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
A study conducted at the University of São Paulo simulated the phenomenon and was highlighted by Nature Astronomy.
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Brazil improves its supercomputer infrastructure
Upgrades to the Santos Dumont supercomputer and new acquisitions by UNICAMP, INPE, and a consortium of São Paulo universities will increase the country’s high-performance computing power.
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Brazil dries up
Climate change gives rise to a region with an arid climate, previously non-existant in the country.
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Capable of complex operations, machines enable to investigate matters such as the effects of deforestation on climate and Milky Way evolution.
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To improve its basic education, Brazil needs to renew undergraduate courses that prepare students to teach, as well as to create policies that make the teaching career attractive.
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Agência FAPESP followed the DEGy Negro River Expedition in search for I. caiana, an electric fish species whose only four specimen known to science were collected in 1968 at an inaccurately-described site.
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Increasingly widespread use of antibiotics fosters the appearance of superbacteria defying science and health systems.
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FAPESP Annual Activity Report - 2022
FAPESP allocated $ PPP 400.5 million to the funding of 19,692 research projects in 2021, for growth of
3.5% compared with 2020.
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