News from Latin America
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-Aug-2025 17:11 ET (6-Aug-2025 21:11 GMT/UTC)
6-Aug-2025
Decline of seed-dispersing animals hinders fight against climate change
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
International team of researchers issues global warning about the need to include frugivores in conservation, forest restoration, and climate change mitigation strategies.Seeds consumed by animals germinate more and faster and establish themselves in safer places to grow.
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- Nature Reviews Biodiversity
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
5-Aug-2025
Corals in Brazilian archipelago capture carbon equivalent to the burning of 324,000 liters of gasoline per year
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
A single species found in the Alcatrazes Archipelago, brain coral, produces around 170 tons of calcium carbonate annually. This represents the retention of approximately 20 tons of carbon in mineral form, which can last for centuries or millennia. A study by the Federal University of São Paulo highlights the potential ecosystem services provided by subtropical corals.
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- Marine Environmental Research
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
4-Aug-2025
Smithsonian digitizes pollen From 18,000 plant species
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstitutePeer-Reviewed Publication
Digitized Pollen Database for Paleontology Research, Allergy Medicine and More
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- Plants People Planet
4-Aug-2025
A comparison of colorful hamlets from the Caribbean challenges ideas about how species arise
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstitutePeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists have been thinking about how new species evolve since Darwin wrote On The Origin of Species in 1859. The results presented here call into question some of the most common explanations of how species originate
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- Science Advances
30-Jul-2025
Study identifies genes that can predict response to immunotherapy in melanoma patients
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
Brazilian researchers develop precision tool that can predict immunotherapy treatment failure, with the potential to personalize therapies and reduce healthcare costs.
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- Journal of Molecular Medicine
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
30-Jul-2025
Study proposes a new window for dark matter research
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
Model considers two DM particles, one stable and one unstable, as well as a vector mediator similar to the photon but with mass, which would promote interaction with ordinary matter particles.
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- Journal of High Energy Physics
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
30-Jul-2025
Registrations open for São Paulo School of Advanced Science in Systems Change and Sustainability
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloMeeting Announcement
The school will integrate multiple forms of knowledge in order to advance towards the systemic changes required for the construction of more equitable and resilient societies. Applicants may submit until August 15.
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
28-Jul-2025
New examination of fish considered a ‘living fossil’ changes our understanding of vertebrate skull evolution
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers reanalyzed the skull musculature of coelacanths, a group of fish that has existed for 400 million years, and concluded that many structures had been incorrectly described. The study was published in Science Advances by researchers from the University of São Paulo and the Smithsonian Institution.
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- Science Advances
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
28-Jul-2025
Studies confirm influence of country of origin on trust in COVID-19 vaccines
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
During the pandemic, a preference for domestic vaccines or those from countries such as the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom was observed for the first time. This phenomenon, known in marketing as the country of origin effect, is usually associated with products that require consumer research before purchase or that have a long tradition in certain countries, such as Swiss chocolates. However, it had never been linked to free vaccines.
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- Management Review Quarterly
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo