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Jair Bolsonaro and Narendra Modi shake hands at a 2020 meeting

How the Populist Leaders of Brazil and India Made Their Countries World Champions of Covid

India recently pushed Brazil out of the media spotlight with its surge in coronavirus ...

Tyrannosaurus rex spanned all of ancient North America, and about 20,000 lived at once. 1Ado123/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Earth Had 2.5 Billion Tyrannosaurus Rex and Other Revelations

During 2.4 million years of existence on Earth, a total of 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus ...

Magic fascinated and troubled early Christians as much as it does some people today. Marvel Studios

Irony: Considered Evil, Magic Is Integral to Development of Christianity

Americans are fascinated by magic. TV shows like “WandaVision” and “The Witcher,” books like ...

Cemetery workers are forced to don protective clothing during a funeral service in the state of Manaus

Enough with the Fussiness, Stop the “Mimimi”, Blurts Out Brazilian President Faced with Covid

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said that people needed to “stop whining” about COVID-19 in ...

Brazil's Butantan Institute is manufacturing a coronavirus vaccine in partnership with the Chinese company Sinovac | Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/SIPA USA/PA Images

The Day Funk Music Came to the Rescue of the Covid Vaccination Program in Brazil

For almost three decades, Brazil’s baile funk music genre has been attacked by conservative ...

A capuchin monkey in Brazil hoists a stone tool to crack open nuts. Luca Antonio Marino, CC BY-ND

A Farm in Brazil Provides a Unique Window on Human Evolution

Human beings used to be defined as “the tool-maker” species. But the uniqueness of ...

A yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti

Experiment with Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes Backfires in Brazil

An attempt to contain the populations of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti in ...

Brazil's Antarctic Station. Project authors: Fábio Henrique Faria, Emerson Jose Vidigal, Eron Costin and João Gabriel de Moura Rosa Cordeiro

Seven Years After Fire, Brazil Promises New Era for Research in Antarctica

The Brazilian Navy (MB, in Portuguese) confirmed the March 2019 completion of the new ...

A rocket being launched from Alcântara Launch Center

After Years of Rejection US Gets Green Light to Use Brazil’s Rocket Launch Center

The United States and Brazil have agreed to a preliminary agreement to for the ...