Science and Technology

Mars may rely on asteroids to come off the drawing board: scientists propose seeking metals in space, using other bodies as fuel stations, and facing journeys so slow that a Martian base would take generations to be built far from the current Earth.

Carla Teles 13/05/2026 at 16:13

Science and Technology

Researchers in England have discovered an impressive mechanism in the brains of flies that could make robots and artificial intelligence systems much smarter, faster, and more accurate than the current technologies available on the market.

Hilton Libório 13/05/2026 at 16:08

Renewable Energy

As Europe tries to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, a plant in Spain begins producing renewable natural gas with green hydrogen and CO₂, injecting synthetic methane directly into the distribution network.

Carla Teles 13/05/2026 at 16:01

Science and Technology

USB-sized chips that “beat like a heart” and “breathe like a lung” are going to space to test how the human body reacts before long missions to the Moon and Mars.

Débora Araújo 13/05/2026 at 15:59

Interesting facts

An illiterate bricklayer invented the plate cistern that stores 16,000 liters of rainwater and serves a family for eight months in the sertão, an invention that became the basis of the One Million Cisterns Program in the Brazilian Northeast.

Bruno Teles 13/05/2026 at 15:54

Automotive

Warning for those buying used cars: tampering with the mileage can become a police case and result in up to 5 years in prison.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 13/05/2026 at 15:44

Economy

What is the Great Reset? The proposal by the World Economic Forum advocating for rebuilding the economy, consumption, technology, and work after major crises has become the target of theories about global control, digital surveillance, and concentration of power.

Débora Araújo 13/05/2026 at 15:37

Construction

The largest cross-border railway in the Middle East progresses with 40% of the construction completed, promising to connect five ports and reduce travel time to 100 minutes, but it is born under tension after drones have turned the region into a permanent risk route for global trade.

Carla Teles 13/05/2026 at 15:35

Construction

Direcional (DIRR3) turns rising costs into opportunity and targets new launches while other companies feel pressure in the sector

Caio Aviz 13/05/2026 at 15:33

Science and Technology

Ditches found by satellite in the desert between the Nile River and the Red Sea reveal mass graves with human and animal bones, indicating an organized nomadic society before the formation of Pharaonic Egypt.

Carla Teles 13/05/2026 at 15:29

Construction

Toyota bets on 3,100 tons of steel to transform the Sorocaba plant, expand the built area by 56,000 m², and prepare for more flexible production in the future.

Caio Aviz 13/05/2026 at 15:13

Science and Technology

20 thousand tons of light-sensitive liquid were buried 700 meters below China, and JUNO wants to capture ghost particles from nuclear reactors to solve one of the biggest questions in modern physics.

Débora Araújo 13/05/2026 at 15:11