If scientists in Brazil have their way, the populations of eight endangered species could soon expand through a mass effort to clone them. The project is spearheaded by the Brasilia Zoologic... Read more
Renninger had started Amyris from a spiral notebook in his backpack. Amyris’s breakthroughs in bioengineering–and its plans to make biofuels from Brazilian sugarcane–promised to... Read more
The Inclusive Wealth Indicator India and Brazil have had explosive growth over the last decade. Or have they? A new measurement of the true wealth of nations finds that what countries give u... Read more
Piranha Vs. Arapaima It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner? The surpris... Read more
The coating could reduce drag and boost buoyancy and stability on boats and submarines A floating weed that clogs waterways around the world has at least one redeeming feature: It... Read more
“This will have a major impact in allowing Brazilian kids to take their ideas to the limit.” The Brazilian government has announced a plan to invest 3.16 billion real (R$; US$2.02 billion) i... Read more
After reaching the lowest Amazon deforestation rate ever recorded, Brazil faces a its next hurdle: how to maximize the increasing resolution of satellite images to monitor small-scale forest... Read more