Interesting facts

Historical Brazilian city founded in 1616 is home to a fort built between 1616 and 1620, preserves 2-billion-year-old rocks, and has a 7.5 km beach voted the 4th most photographed in Brazil.

Alisson Ficher 26/04/2026 at 14:35

Science and Technology

Swiss scientists have created a “blood battery” capable of transforming what you eat into electricity within the human body, in an advance that could retire batteries and reinvent the future of implants.

Ana Alice 26/04/2026 at 14:09

Science and Technology

The strongest El Niño in the last 10 years will hit Santa Catarina, and the meteorologist who issued the warning said that it’s not alarmism, it’s reality, and needs to be treated seriously.

Bruno Teles 26/04/2026 at 14:06

Interesting facts

High in the mountains of Peru, an Inca city 3 times larger than Machu Picchu, isolated by canyons, cold, heat, and a brutal trail in the Andes, is sparking the interest of tourists.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 26/04/2026 at 14:01

Interesting facts

Someone is poisoning park trees in Florianópolis with a drill and a purple substance, and the city hall only found out because a volunteer decided to investigate alone what was happening.

Bruno Teles 26/04/2026 at 13:46

Agribusiness

Brazil imports 85% of the fertilizers that sustain its agribusiness, and new global tension exposes a silent risk in the field: without potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen at the right time, the next harvest could become more expensive even before entering the soil.

Valdemar Medeiros 26/04/2026 at 13:42

Interesting facts

The ideal breakfast, according to science, includes 4 powerful foods that improve memory, energy, and heart health right from the first hours of the day.

Jefferson Augusto 26/04/2026 at 12:57

Construction

It looks like Styrofoam, but it’s not: structural EPS combines polystyrene panels with metal meshes and shotcrete to form strong walls that cost up to 30% less than traditional masonry, and the system already has Inmetro certification.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 12:34

Science and Technology

Ibama is using drones, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence to hunt an Asian invasive plant in the mangroves of Cubatão before it spreads along the Brazilian coast, and more than 700 trees of the species have already been manually removed.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 12:31

Science and Technology

Giant octopuses up to 19 meters dominated the oceans 100 million years ago, and new 3D technology reveals what the true apex predators of the sea were like.

Jefferson Augusto 26/04/2026 at 12:27

Science and Technology

Brazil will face a week of climatic extremes with temperatures ranging from 0 degree in Serra Gaúcha to 36 degrees in the Southeast, rainfall of up to 200 millimeters in the North and Northeast, and a polar air mass that promises to be the most intense of 2026.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 12:04

Economy

The R$ 61.7 billion deficit in government accounts in 2025 will trigger the fiscal framework’s mechanisms for the first time, and starting in 2027, personnel spending will only be able to grow 0.6% above inflation, which could freeze salary adjustments and public service entrance exams.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 11:54