Brazilian researchers analyzed data from MRI scans and various tests to detect biological alterations linked to the neurological symptoms most reported by patients, especially anxiety, depression, sleepiness and fatigue. The latest results were presented to the ninth edition of BRAINN Congress.

Scientists analyzed data from 232 Indigenous Territories for the period. Results published in Scientific Reports show deforestation rates accelerating between 2019 and 2021.

The best design in terms of thermal comfort combined three simple, cheap and sustainable solutions: replacing conventional windows with fully openable tilting windows; replacing brick walls with monolithic expanded polystyrene walls; and replacing ordinary window glass with green-tinted tempered glass.

The study published in the journal Science reported for the first time how to manipulate the formation rate of molecules in optical cavities. Researchers from the US Naval Research Laboratory and the Millennium Institute for Optics Research at the University of Santiago carried out this experimental and theoretical research.

Professor Christoph Gerber, Department of Physics and Swiss Nano Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, has been selected as the winner of the 2023 “ALBERT EINSTEIN” World Award of Science. The 2023 “José Vasconcelos” World Award of Education will be granted to Professor Larry V. Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, USA. The prizes will be conferred during the 38th Annual Award Ceremony hosted by the University of Helsinki on Friday 3rd November 2023.

A research group at Butantan Institute performed tests on animal models with asthma as a reference and demonstrated that the peptide from Thalassophryne nattereri, common in North and Northeast Brazil, is safe and efficacious.