Tag Archives: science
Science Without Borders Posted by Rachel on Apr 11, 2012
President Dilma Rousseff traveled to the United States this week, where one of her top agenda items was the Science Without Borders program, known as Ciência sem fronteiras in Portuguese. It’s one of Brazil’s most ambitious government education programs that aims to send 101,000 Brazilian students abroad to study the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering…
Brazilians Fighting Autism Posted by Rachel on Nov 18, 2010
This week, an interesting story came out in the news about Brazilian scientists working in the United States on an autism study. They discovered an autism “neuron” that they managed to fix in a laboratory experiment. The ground-breaking study, led by Brazilian molecular biologist Alysson Muotri, showed that there may be a possibility to treat…
Reading Comprehension: Lizards Posted by Rachel on May 14, 2010
Today we’re going to look at an article about lizards and global warming. Have a read and try to answer the questions. Aquecimento global já leva populações de lagartos à extinção, Estadão Excerpt: “O aquecimento global está inviabilizando a sobrevivência de várias populações de lagartos, reduzindo o tempo em que os animais se mantêm ativos…
Spiders on Display at Amazon Convention Posted by Rachel on Jul 28, 2009
Last week, scientists and others met at the science and technology fair held by the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (Brazilian Society for Scientific Progress) in Manaus, where there was a special exhibit with exotic spiders on display. The star of the exhibit was a 20 centimeter-long tarantula (below), a member of the…