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EnterUp develops recommender engine that personalizes online search by suggesting items aligned with customers' interests.

The map produced by the Dark Energy Survey covers about 1/30th of the sky and shows the distribution of dark matter in this region.

Researchers at São Paulo State University have completed the first mtDNA sequencing of one of Brazil’s more than 120 species of carnivorous plants.

Using GPS data from smartphones, new tool promises to identify disease hotspots and help stop transmission.

Methodology developed in Brazil combines low-intensity electric current with a formulation containing nanoencapsulated chemotherapy.

Research group is investigating alternatives for addressing problems such as acidosis, a serious disease that affects feedlot cattle.

Representatives from Texas Tech University and FAPESP highlight the importance of mechanisms such as SPRINT in the globalization of science.

Nilson Dias Vieira Junior talks about the role the Nuclear and Energy Research Institute had in developing and popularizing the use of lasers in a wide variety of fields in Brazil.

Researchers are investigating how to improve the quality of beef produced in Brazil, which could increase industry revenue without expanding breeding area.

Projects conducted by researchers from Brazil and the United States were presented during FAPESP Week Nebraska-Texas, held on September 18-22.

Research funded by FAPESP and Texas Tech is studying high energy physics and structural defects in systems that use graphene and attempting to discover new pathways in quantum mechanics.

Collaborations between scientists from the State of São Paulo and Texas Tech University are advancing knowledge in fields such as health, the environment and engineering.

The results of a study conducted in Brazil were presented in the city of Lubbock, United States, during FAPESP Week Nebraska-Texas.

At Texas Tech University, FAPESP scientific director talks about the Foundation's funding lines to promote collaborative research between universities and companies.

Scientists from the University of Nebraska and the State of São Paulo kick-off the symposium, emphasizing the importance of international collaboration for the worldwide development of science.

On the first day of FAPESP Week Nebraska-Texas, researchers from Brazil and the United States presented studies focused on making agricultural production more sustainable.

Developed at the University of Nebraska with the aid of researchers from dozens of countries, the Global Yield Gap and Water Productivity Atlas is a platform to help farmers and governments improve agricultural yield.

In experiments with mice, a Brazilian research group showed that a diet rich in saturated fats damages the system of the brain that controls hunger well before it alters the profile of intestinal bacteria.

According to Helen Raikes, a researcher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, recurrent bacterial infections early in life may permanently alter the intestines’ ability to absorb nutrients.

The method that allows observation of the chemical bonds between atoms on a scale of one millionth of one billionth of a second has applications in a wide variety of fields.

Researchers from five countries analyze remnants trapped in crater sediment to determine how vegetation in a biome responded to climate change.

A study using the city of Santos, in Brazil, as an example, considered only the damage to buildings. Researchers predict far higher losses in other areas, including health and education, if nothing is done.

Study collected five years of data on 3,000 men in Brazil, Mexico and the United States. Precancerous lesions took two years to appear in some cases.

In a presentation to the 8th Workshop on Melanoma Models, British scientist Colin Goding spoke about how a lack of nutrients can make tumor cells stop proliferating and acquire an invasive phenotype.

A new method for analyzing chemical compositions is tested in Andean plants and shows how they became geographically distributed, leading to an understanding of their evolutionary history.

Tests will identify genetic alterations that can be used to measure meat quality, characteristics of seedlings and plants, or pesticide resistance of disease-transmitting mosquitoes.

The latest activity report shows that in 2016, FAPESP increased investment in Thematic Projects and invested more in support for small business innovation research than at any time in the past 20 years.

Study advocates fire-management policy to conserve the world’s richest savanna, a wonder of biodiversity and perennial source of many major Brazilian rivers.

Study contradicting the view that worker bees are forcibly castrated by the queen was carried out at the University of São Paulo and published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

In addition to estrus synchronization, the hormone is also used to hasten puberty and induce superovulation in females.