Science

Disinformation has always been dangerous for society, especially when there is involvement with public health. With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, consequently several false news began to circulate about the disease, possible treatment and prevention – and this information would have cost lives, according to a recent study. China says it found coronavirus in […]

There are physical conditions in distant worlds that cannot be reproduced in laboratories. So, to analyze the thermal and electrical processes that take place in water under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure – as is the case with Neptune and Uranus – scientists from Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) and the University […]

In early August, Volnei Morastoni, mayor of the city of Itajaí, in Santa Catarina, made news by suggesting that a treatment called ozone therapy would be effective against COVID-19. To treat coronavirus, mayor suggests application of ozone by anal route Ozonized water is the newest weapon against coronavirus Malaria or COVID-19? Are the symptoms between […]

Again, some sites are reporting possible asteroid collisions with our planet in 2020. Social media profiles and YouTube videos talk about some cosmic objects – which do exist – alarming about some tragedy that would happen this year, usually citing NASA as the source in the news. Calm down, nothing like that will happen now, […]

This Thursday (13), the new phase of a serological survey conducted by the City of São Paulo was released. The result shows that the majority of those infected with COVID-19 in the city are between 18 and 34 years old, and are the majority of those who have already contracted the new coronavirus in the […]

This week, scientists at the University of California at San Francisco developed a new approach to curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2. It turns out that the team of researchers designed a fully synthetic, production-ready molecule that prevents the virus from infecting our cells. In an aerosol formulation they tested, dubbed "AeroNabs" by the researchers, the […]

In the fight against the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), an international Reviews classifies the growth of COVID-19 in Brazil as "stable or growing slowly". That's because the rate of transmission of the disease, known as the R rate, reached 1.01 on Sunday (9), according to a study by the university Imperial College, UK. What is R […]

This week, Russia approved the world's first vaccine against the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), according to President Vladimir Putin. The speed in the production of the immunizer, called Sputnik V, was only possible because Russian scientists had been working on the vaccine for six years, but the story is not exactly that, or rather, it is […]

The “ultimate destiny of the universe”, as the end of our cosmos is called, is a topic of physical cosmology, and there are many hypotheses about how and when it will happen. While it may take a few billion – or trillion – years, it is highly likely that the end will happen, and the […]

Apple has not yet introduced its next generation of smartphones, but gadgets that enhance the device can now be booked with the Russian company Caviar. Famous for personalizing cell phones with noble materials (and reselling them for values ​​well above the market), the brand has just announced the iPhone 12 Discovery Musk Be On Mars, […]