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Study proposes simple low-cost solutions to improve thermal comfort in social housing

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Journal: Sustainability
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Brazilian fossil provides earliest evidence of evolutionary trait that enabled dinosaurs to become giants

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bone cavities called air sacs appeared in the ancestors of long-necked dinosaurs about 225 million years ago, according to the analysis of a specimen found in Rio Grande do Sul state, South Brazil. The study also shows that air sacs did not evolve as linearly as scientists believe.

Journal: The Anatomical Record
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Green technology permits total use of seaweed by cosmetics industry

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A review article goes beyond international standards to propose zero waste methodologies in the production of natural assets from marine organisms.

Journal: Phycology
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

A new path for quantum physics to control chemical reactions

Millenium Institute for Research in Optics
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Journal: Science

Winners of World Cultural Council awards announced – Award Ceremony to be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland on November 2023

Consejo Cultural Mundial
Grant and Award Announcement

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.

Funder: World Cultural Council

Peptide from venomous fish toxin controls lung inflammation in mice

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Journal: Cells
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Experiment in Brazil identifies flood-prone areas of cities

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The study combined models that predict urban expansion and land-use changes with hydrodynamic models, and the results were validated using actual data for São Caetano do Sul, a city in metropolitan São Paulo.

Journal: Water
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Study reveals that myocardial injury in hypertensive patients with Covid-19 is related to immune dysfunctions

D'Or Institute for Research and Education
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), in partnership with colleagues from the Rede D'Or, the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases/FIOCRUZ, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Bahia School of Medicine and Public Health, the Federal Fluminense University, and the State University of Rio de Janeiro, have published a study in the Journal of Clinical Immunology that reveals alterations in the immune system that may be involved in cardiac muscle injury in hypertensive patients with Covid-19.

Journal: Journal of Clinical Immunology
Funder: Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino, CAPES, FINEP, Serrapilheira Institute, CNPq, FAPERJ, SEI

Birds and bats ensure yields for cacao farmers in northern Peru

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Healthy bat and bird populations don’t only help to keep the endangered tropical dry forests of northern Peru in equilibrium. For the regions’ farmers of cacao—the main ingredient in chocolate— these predators are worth almost $1,000 per hectare of annual production.

Journal: Ecological Applications

Study identifies a protein that could be a target for a vaccine against spotted fever

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The molecule was identified by researchers at the University of São Paulo in cells of the Amblyomma tick that transmits the disease.

Journal: Parasites & Vectors
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

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