Economy A pair of Chinese shoes arrived in Brazil in 2025 costing an average of US$ 4.50, an impossible price to match that helped reduce national footwear production by 1.9%, close around 3,000 jobs, and bring imports to the highest volume in ten years, according to Abicalçados. Bruno Teles 02/06/2026 at 16:02
Science and Technology Tokyo ‘devours’ up to 1.54 billion liters of sewage per day: Japan’s largest plant heats sludge in digesters, transforms waste into methane gas, and generates enough energy to reduce part of the plant’s own consumption. Alisson Ficher 02/06/2026 at 16:00
Science and Technology China surprises the world by developing a 100 kW plasma space engine that is already operating at full power and could pave the way for faster interplanetary missions. Alisson Ficher 02/06/2026 at 15:58
Science and Technology End of common asphalt becomes reality in Germany: country tests coverage with solar panels over highway capable of generating electricity, protecting the pavement from rain, and transforming the autobahn into a suspended power plant without occupying new land. Alisson Ficher 02/06/2026 at 15:56
Science and Technology June out of the ordinary in Brazil: intense cold, frost risk, and the arrival of El Niño now at 82% change the climate in various regions of the country and are expected to bring economic impacts; see what it’s going to be like Romário Pereira de Carvalho 02/06/2026 at 15:50
Science and Technology The United States launched into the water the largest self-propelled dredger in its history, a giant ship that scoops up the seabed to restore beaches and ports. Douglas Avila 02/06/2026 at 15:43
Science and Technology A device that swings like a seesaw powered only by sunlight promises to extract lithium essential for batteries from seawater and also generate potable water as a byproduct, in an innovation by Chinese researchers that is still a prototype but could change the race for the most coveted metal of the energy transition. Bruno Teles 02/06/2026 at 15:41
Construction After a two-day hoisting operation, the world’s largest crane, nicknamed Big Carl, fitted a 500-ton reactor vessel at EDF’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, with a clearance of only 40 millimeters on each side. Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 02/06/2026 at 15:34
Economy USA “threatens” Brazilian imports with a 25% tariff citing digital commerce, Pix, deforestation, and patents, but exempts strategic products, while China offers itself as a partner and talks about defending Brazil’s sovereignty. Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 02/06/2026 at 15:32
Science and Technology Dust from dead stars has become a ruler to measure 30,000 years of ice in the Arctic: cosmic particles that have been falling for billions of years revealed that an area permanently covered in 1980 is now ice-free part of the year, with a 42% decline since 1979 putting the polar ocean on historical alert. Valdemar Medeiros 02/06/2026 at 15:26
Interesting facts Billion-year-old rocks underground may hide one of the largest sources of clean energy on Earth, natural hydrogen, a gas that forms when water reacts with iron-rich minerals and that, according to the US Geological Survey, could supply the world’s demand for up to 200 years. Bruno Teles 02/06/2026 at 15:24
Science and Technology Technology inspired by armadillos transforms a soft surface into a rigid shield and creates an artificial shell capable of protecting flexible robots, delicate machines, and sensitive electronics against unexpected impacts. Viviane Alves 02/06/2026 at 15:22