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A trio of quadriplegic patients learned to control their wheelchairs with their thoughts, which allowed them to roll a relatively complex route, avoiding obstacles, in the corridors of the German hospital where they were being followed. Research describing the feat has just been published by American and European specialists in …

Justine Karst, a mycologist at the University of Alberta (Canada), feared things had gone too far when her son, in eighth grade, came home and told her he had learned that trees could communicate through underground networks. His colleague Jason Hoeksema, from the University of Mississippi (USA), had a similar …

A small band of anthropoid monkeys were feeding on a tree in the Congolese forest, permeated by fog. Adult chimpanzees were eating fruit in the treetops, while two young monkeys played nearby. But one of the apes was a gorilla, not a chimpanzee. “What we’ve been told about the interactions …

Archaeologists at the University of Milan in Italy have found the remains of a young man who suffered one of the worst deaths in history. The medieval skeleton showed signs that he had been subjected to a cruel method of torture. To make matters worse, the man may also have …

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet could over time raise global sea levels by at least 25 centimeters, even if humans immediately stop burning the fossil fuels that are warming the planet to dangerous levels, according to a new study published in last Monday (29). The study, published in …

The scene was repeated over and over again in the swamps and swamps of northern Australia: a family of feral pigs descended to the water’s edge to drink. Just when the pigs are most vulnerable, the world’s largest species of crocodile explodes from its camouflage in the water, sending the …

Hungry polar bears are turning to garbage dumps for food as their icy habitat disappears. On Wednesday, a team of Canadian and American scientists warned that litter poses an emerging threat to already vulnerable populations of polar bears, as the animals become more reliant on landfills near communities in the …

In the early 1950s, in the aftermath of the world conflict, Brazil was waking up to the importance of science for social progress and national sovereignty. Under the influence of leaders with a daring vision of the nation, at the same time that it began the crucial phase of its …