09 / April / 2026 Texas approves US$3 billion for a dementia research institute The initiative replicates a successful model for cancer research funding and could become one of the world’s largest funders of research on neurodegenerative diseases By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
20 / March / 2026 Netherlands to create innovation agency modeled on DARPA New institution plans to spend €500 million euros on high-risk R&D and aims to bridge the “valley of death” between research and the market By Editorial staff
19 / February / 2025 The Lancet: “Authors are self-censoring” Editorials published by the BMJ Group and The Lancet stress that it is imperative for the scientific community not to shy away from confronting Donald Trump’s “harmful policies” By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
03 / December / 2024 Twenty years of the Innovation Act: a promising seed in barren ground Despite the bold and modern set of legal instruments, the measures have not yet been enough to change the Brazilian economy’s capacity for innovation By André Tortato Rauen
02 / July / 2024 We need to steer technological change The innovations we need cannot depend solely on spontaneous discoveries prompted by curiosity By André Tortato Rauen
30 / April / 2024 An account of the main themes of science Sociologist recommends CGEE report that addresses scientific topics from the perspective of management and strategic studies By Marcelo Augusto de Paiva dos Santos
26 / March / 2024 Peer review: the challenge of making it more diverse Laura Feetham-Walker, from the British publishing company IOP Publishing, discusses the importance of engaging early career and female researchers in manuscript revision processes By Moura Leite Netto
23 / November / 2023 Gaps in homicide knowledge Research on murders in the United States, where Black men are the most common victims, has gaps to be filled after 23 years of restrictions By Editorial staff
02 / October / 2023 The other side of the brain drain The emigration of highly skilled professionals may help create collaborative networks among researchers, states UNICAMP’s science policy expert By Moura Leite Netto
10 / August / 2023 Rethinking the article review process Peter Schulz, a scholar of scientific communication at Unicamp, discusses the challenges of making the peer-review process more open and transparent By Ricardo Muniz
