Brazilians are increasingly opting for apartment living, a trend highlighted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics’ (IBGE) latest Demographic Census for 2000–2022. The surge in ...

When someone mentions Nazis in Brazil, the first image that comes to mind is that of a ridiculous group of blonds from the State of Rio Grande do Sul raising their right arms in the midst of smoke ...

Acusada de copiar trechos de outros autores e reciclar textos próprios sem dar as devidas referências, a filóloga Carla Rossi foi condenada pelo Tribunal Administrativo Federal da Suíça a devolver ...

The thousands of streets in the city of São Paulo guard much more wild life than just the white, black or grey pigeons that rest up on the wires of telephone poles and fight for the crumbs of bread on ...

In 1835, a series of government-commissioned reports on the state of the Empire showed less-than-encouraging findings on the status of public education in the provinces. The report on Alagoas lamented ...

Upgrades to the Santos Dumont supercomputer and acquisition of new machines by UNICAMP, INPE, and a consortium of São Paulo universities will increase the country’s high-performance computing power ...

For over 200 years, the social fabric of São Paulo has been uniquely molded by the arrival of more than five million migrants of various nationalities from different regions of Brazil. The comings and ...

Three-quarters of our planet is covered in water. The famous H₂O molecule, vital to life on Earth, constantly changes state and location depending on variations in temperature. It transforms from a ...

The cliff that supports the Ponta do Seixas lighthouse in João Pessoa, Paraíba, the easternmost point of Brazil, has been washed away by the sea. In 2014, a stretch of road leading to the lighthouse ...

Brazil is taking an important step towards joining the group of nations capable of space flight. Two public calls for proposals for nonmilitary use of the Alcântara Launch Center (CLA), on the coast ...

The most famous of Brazil’s early revolutionaries, the Inconfidentes, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (1746–1792) has been turned into an emblem of the nation’s history. Known as Tiradentes, he became a ...

Study expands the area occupied by this rare type of coastal ecosystem on the border between Pará and Amapá By definition, mangroves are a type of coastal ecosystem found in tropical and subtropical ...