News from Latin America
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 28-Oct-2026 12:16 ET (28-Oct-2026 16:16 GMT/UTC)
17-Dec-2024
All observables in nature can be measured with a single constant, the ‘second’
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
Brazilian researchers propose a new approach to a debate that has been going on among theoretical physicists for decades. They claim that the minimum number of standards needed to measure everything depends on the type of space-time adopted. In relativistic space-time, the time standard is enough.
- Journal
- Scientific Reports
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
12-Dec-2024
FAPESP, Fundecitrus, and ESALQ-USP create Applied Research Center for Innovation and Sustainability
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloBusiness Announcement
The Center will have a total investment of R$200 million for the next five years, renewable for another five. The sum is equivalent to 81.9 million in PPP – Purchasing Power Parity, according to the conversion factor valid for 2023. Of this total, R$90 million will be contributed by FAPESP and Fundecitrus, and the remaining funds will correspond to non-financial contributions, in the form of investments in infrastructure and technicians’ salaries, among others. The Center’s mission will be to develop research, disseminate knowledge and transfer technology to the sector, which is responsible for 8.2% of São Paulo’s exports and 45,000 jobs in the state.
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
12-Dec-2024
El Niño exacerbates effects of drought on Amazon groundwater and increases fire risk, study finds
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers have been able to demonstrate a link between the climatic phenomenon and the propensity for fires, creating a tool that could help with future prevention efforts.
- Journal
- Science of The Total Environment
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
11-Dec-2024
Back to the future: The singular times and multiple temporalities of tourism planning
Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral
In tourism and elsewhere, the term polycrisis has been used to describe the simultaneous occurrence of disparate crises in which the temporal dimensions of the past, present and future become mutually implicative. From this point of view, critical reflection on the role of tourism planning in building the future is essential since our decisions in the present have the power to shape the tourism of tomorrow. Tourism planning specifically is dedicated to the design and management of the future of tourist destinations. This study argues that beyond a strategic and efficient design and management of destinations, planning can become an ethical practice that aspires to build more desirable, fair and sustainable tourism futures
- Journal
- Tourism Geographies
10-Dec-2024
Study reveals cause of one of the main complications of bariatric surgery
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
A study conducted by a Brazilian researcher at Harvard shows that serotonin – a hormone known for regulating mood – plays a central role in the development of postprandial hypoglycemia in up to 30% of people who have undergone surgery; the findings suggest avenues for possible treatments.
- Journal
- Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
10-Dec-2024
El Niño increases infestations of mosquito that transmits dengue in São Paulo state, Brazil, study concludes
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
A study by a group of scientists shows that larval infestations of Aedes aegypti in open-air disused containers increased in response to the effects of the weather phenomenon, especially mean seasonal temperature and rainfall above 23.3 °C and 153 mm respectively.
- Journal
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
9-Dec-2024
Jabuticaba peel improves nutritional characteristics of bread
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
Consumption of bread supplemented with jabuticaba peel flour, which is rich in fiber and antioxidants, lowers glycemic peaks and prolongs satiety.
- Journal
- Foods
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
9-Dec-2024
Study maps risk and protective factors associated with suicidal behavior
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
The study involved 2,788 participants with impulse control disorder treated at the University of São Paulo’s general and teaching hospital in Brazil. According to the authors, in these cases, health workers should assess not only explicit suicide attempts but also other kinds of life-threatening behavior.
- Journal
- International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
6-Dec-2024
Researchers map genetic variants associated with pancreatic cancer in Brazilian patients
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
The pioneering initiative by scientists at the University of São Paulo aimed to promote early diagnosis and improve treatment of the disease, which is relatively infrequent but one of the leading causes of death from cancer in Brazil.
- Journal
- Scientific Reports
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo