With a current contingent of just over 320,000 master’s and doctoral students, Brazil’s graduate system is experiencing a complex crisis caused by compounding issues. For more than three decades prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual number of graduate degrees had been climbing steadily, peaking at 24,400 doctoral and 70,100 master’s degrees in 2019. This growth stalled during the ...

More than half (60.3%) of Brazilians say they are interested or very interested in science and technology (S&T), according to data from the 2023 Survey on Public Perception of S&T in Brazil.The results were released on May 15 by the Center for Management and Strategic Studies (CGEE) and the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI).

Published annually by Clarivate Analytics, a list of the most cited scientists of the previous decade highlights a paradox in Brazilian research: despite constant growth of the country’s scientific output, few of its papers have a major international impact. In the 2021 edition of the list, released on November 16, only 21 of the 6,602 elite authors are from institutions in Brazil (0.3% of ...

CÉSAR LATTES, 100 The physicist who saw a bigger picture. César Lattes' studies were based on experiments with cosmic rays and the use of accelerators in particle physics

On August 3, the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) celebrated six decades since its inauguration. Formed at the beginning of the space race—led by the USA and the former Soviet Union—to conduct research and develop technologies and applications related to the space sector, the institute has since established itself as …

In the 1990s, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) psychologist Sam Tsemberis introduced an innovative “Housing First” program in several US cities to aid homeless people with chronic mental illness. Over time, the program expanded to include the broader homeless population. The underlying principle of Tsemberis’s approach is that providing stable housing is the first essential ...

Between 1994 and 2019, FAPESP invested R$1.88 billion (in 2019 values) in funding lines1 related to the internationalization of scientific research. In 2019 alone, the foundation allocated R$199 million to these areas, corresponding to 15.9% of its total annual funding (R$1.26 billion) The Research Internship Abroad program (BEPE) is currently FAPESP’s primary instrument for supporting the ...

In 2019, 64,368 scientific papers were published1 and indexed by the World of Science base with at least one author based in Brazil, representing an increase of 6.9% over 2018, when there were 60,203. This number accounts for 2.8% of global scientific output, which totals 2.33 million papers per year Authors based in São Paulo were involved …

Pesquisa FAPESP is the only magazine that specializes in covering science and technology research in Brazil. Through news reports, videos, and podcasts, the magazine reports on the results of Brazilian research with intellectual, social, or economic impact in all fields.

It has been nearly three years since the last English edition of Pesquisa FAPESP. The pandemic and consequent suspension of face-to-face activities interrupted our periodic publication of articles originally published in Portuguese, although the English version of our website has been kept up to date (revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en). Now, we are …