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Discover the vibrant world of science in South America, where cutting-edge research and unique ecosystems converge. From groundbreaking innovations to conservation efforts, explore how this dynamic region is advancing knowledge and addressing global challenges in our latest feature.
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Recent research highlights advances in cancer biology, space construction, particle physics, climate science, medicine, archaeology, quantum technology, and radioactive-water cleanup, while emphasizing remaining uncertainties.
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Recent research reveals AI unpredictability, cancer-treatment vulnerabilities, cash benefits reducing infant deaths, a potentially female British ruler, and stringent tests of relativity.
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Scientists report promising advances in early Alzheimer’s prediction, Martian volcanism, brain waste clearance, ozone monitoring, and fish vaccination technology.
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Researchers discovered ancient blood-cell-like remnants in a 115-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, suggesting long-term molecular preservation potential.
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Researchers have made significant discoveries in Alzheimer’s, global warming, genetic origins, and dinosaur diets, revealing insights that could advance understanding in various fields.
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Across 52 Brazilian Atlantic Forest fragments and 1.3 million trapped seeds, species richness rose with surrounding forest cover and rainfall rather than with fragment size.
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A newly described 80-million-year-old burrowing snake from Brazil and a reanalysis of Dinilysia show early snakes had strikingly different brains and explored many different lifestyles.
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Nearly 40 years of satellite data show the Indigenous Xavante Pimentel Barbosa territory stayed largely intact while surrounding Cerrado land became pasture and soybean farms.
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A sealed inclusion in a super-deep Brazilian diamond held goethite, offering first natural evidence the water-bearing iron mineral survives the journey into the lower mantle.
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Ancient DNA from two Indigenous individuals in northern Chile, dated 1492–1631, yielded CAM9, the earliest known smallpox genome from the Americas, linking it to Europe.
