Paula Ferreira

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Science Communication

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Os Dedos de Deus na descrição Lagrangiana

Medindo BAO com ondas gravitacionais

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The Magnus effect: the physical principle feared by goalkeepers

Where is the center of the universe (or is there even one)?

What are lenticular galaxies?

Why did Einstein find quantum mechanics debatable?

What’s the brightest star from Earth, and how do we measure it?

Chladni figures: the mysterious patterns in ‘The Rings of Power’ title sequence have some serious science behind them

The glory: the science behind a rare optical phenomenon

How JWST is showing us the earliest galaxies in the universe — and challenging our current theories

A hundred years ago, a physicist tried to convince the world the universe is expanding — through math alone

The unlikely story of neutrino research involves ultrapure water, shifting masses, and two casino-loving physicists

The woman who developed one of the most beautiful theorems in physics

Is it possible for planets to orbit multiple star systems like in sci-fi?

Nothing to talk about: the many mysteries of vacuums

How the cosmic web makes and breaks the formation of new stars

Can solar rays push the James Webb Telescope Around?

Eunice Foote: the first person to measure the impact of carbon dioxide on climate

New map of the universe reveals 4.4 million radio sources in the northern sky

Annie Jump Cannon: the legend behind stellar classification

If the atmosphere is chaotic, how can we trust climate models?

Stunning satellite observations show Tonga eruption effects in unprecedented detail

Science may not be the meritocracy we thought it to be: gender and race discrepancies are prevalent

What does the universe sound like? The eerie world of cosmic sonification

The asteroid Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029. Here’s why this is a good thing

What is Plasma — the most common state of matter found in the universe

The first indirect detection of gravitational waves: the road to LIGO

Illegal gold mining happening in plain sight on an Amazon river

Eugenics: how bad science was used to promote racism and ableism

Astronomers may have detected a planet orbiting a triple star system

Astronomers zoom in on mysterious V838 Monocerotis red nova

Why do stars twinkle, or do they twinkle at all? For astronomers, this is important

Unusual collision triggers supernova explosion in binary star system

A different way of looking at the sky — Brazilian ethnoastronomy and its unique constellations

A major drought in the central Brasil is causing a socio-economic crisis

Future generations will experience more from extreme weather events

A universe in a bottle: why simulating everything there is is so important

Neutron Stars: one of the most extreme objects we know

How scientists predict climate scenarios — enter the world of climate models

All-female team highlights mysteries from a peculiar solar storm

The Olympian period — the effect of menstruation on female athletes performance

Scientists develop AI to identify holes in the Sun’s corona

Could we use a Dyson sphere to harvest energy around a black hole?

Our galactic neighbourhood is now charted and available for you to explore

Scientists peer back in time to find the birth of the first stars

What if the Earth was made of blueberries?

We now know the largest spinning objects in the universe

How did the Oort cloud form? A new simulation reveals its origins

Scientists find a new way to make virtual stars

Chandra X-ray and MeerKAT data reveal a busy galactic center

What is dark matter? A deep dive

Ashes from Caribbean volcano eruption reach as far as India

Scientists use machine learning to classify millions of new galaxies

CO2 concentrations quietly reached the highest daily values in recorded history

12-year astrophotography mosaic of the Milky Way

Low frequency sky map reveals an archive of supermassive black holes

From candles to ladders: how astronomers measure very large distances in the universe

The merging of Milky Way and Andromeda’s supermassive black holes

What is the albedo effect, and why it matters in the climate crisis

Parker Solar Probe reveals dazzling image of Venus

Latin American’s science contribution against COVID-19

Astronomers found a giant cluster of galaxies from the early universe

Game theory could be the key for finding intelligent alien life

More evidence that 2020 was an unusually hot year

Milky Way’s X-ray reveals giant bubbles

Finally, some good environment news : the 2020 ozone layer hole closed down

No one knows for sure the expansion rate of the universe

The Betelgeuse false alarm and Red Giants dust hypothesis

This hurricane season was so intense scientists ran out of names for storms

Gaia mission’s third data release shows astonishing galactic 3D maps