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Science and Technology

While Brazilian highways struggle with an excess of trucks, a company removed 82,000 trailers from the roads of Santa Catarina in one year by transporting 6,700 tons per day by sea from São Francisco do Sul.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 19/06/2026 at 21:14

Science and Technology

Chinese robot with artificial intelligence independently welds offshore oil platforms, supports 30 tons, cuts 70-millimeter steel, and has a projected lifespan of 20 years.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 15/06/2026 at 18:59

Agribusiness

While China gobbles up half of Brazilian beef, the United States ranks second even amid tariff tensions. Over the year, the country has already exported 1.3 million tons and earned nearly 8 billion dollars.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 05/06/2026 at 01:06

Economy

A gigantic piece weighing 300 tons, equivalent to two Statues of Liberty, was hoisted almost 100 meters high in the interior of Mato Grosso do Sul to complete the largest recovery boiler in the world inside the R$ 23 billion megafactory of cellulose.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/05/2026 at 22:24

Interesting facts

Amid the United States’ economic blockade, China delivers 15,000 tons of rice to Cuba as part of a 60,000-ton donation personally approved by Xi Jinping. The package includes 80 million dollars and solar panels for hospitals.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 25/05/2026 at 01:48

Ports and Shipyards

The largest port in SC operates ships up to 336 meters that require pilots, tugboats, and calculated maneuvers to dock, broke a record of 17.5 million tons in 2025, and is now dredging the channel to accommodate even larger ships with 16,000 containers.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 14/05/2026 at 22:37

Construction

A Boeing 747 freighter took off from China carrying 90 tons of oil equipment, including an 8-meter part, to Saudi Arabia because global shipping delays were already threatening to halt the client’s operations in the middle of the desert extraction field.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 08/05/2026 at 16:53

Maritime

Nuclear warship of over 100,000 tons returns to United States missions after 15 months of maintenance, with tests completed ahead of schedule, reinforced catapults, and the naval fleet under global pressure.

Flavia Marinho 01/05/2026 at 20:03

Construction

A ship loaded with 800 tons of equipment set sail from China to Salvador to begin the construction of the longest bridge over the sea in Latin America, measuring 12.4 kilometers in length and featuring technology never before used on the continent.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 21/04/2026 at 10:18

Agribusiness

With nearly 500 thousand tons per year, barley production is growing in Brazil, while a decline in beer consumption among Generation Z raises alarms in the sector.

Ruth Rodrigues 30/03/2026 at 16:00

Entenda por que a Torre de Pisa ficou inclinada, os erros de engenharia, o solo instável e as soluções que evitaram seu colapso ao longo dos séculos.

Construction

The Leaning Tower Built on Shallow Foundations in Unstable Sand and Clay in the 12th Century Began to Sink When It Was Only Three Stories Tall and Was Almost Abandoned; Discover the Tower of Pisa, a Monument Weighing About 14,000 Tons and Approximately 56 Meters Tall.

Ruth Rodrigues 02/03/2026 at 11:56

Caterpillar 6090 FS na mineração pesada: pá hidráulica que carrega caminhão fora de estrada e define produtividade por tonelada em grandes minas.

Science and Technology

She Doesn’t Dig, She Swallows Mountains: The Caterpillar 6090 FS Weighs 1,000 Tons, Has Two 4,500 Hp Engines, and Loads Giant Trucks in 4 Passes, Dumping Up to 9,000 Tons Per Hour in Heavy Mining

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 18/02/2026 at 18:12

While Brazilian highways struggle with an excess of trucks, a company removed 82,000 trailers from the roads of Santa Catarina in one year by transporting 6,700 tons per day by sea from São Francisco do Sul.

Chinese robot with artificial intelligence independently welds offshore oil platforms, supports 30 tons, cuts 70-millimeter steel, and has a projected lifespan of 20 years.

While China gobbles up half of Brazilian beef, the United States ranks second even amid tariff tensions. Over the year, the country has already exported 1.3 million tons and earned nearly 8 billion dollars.

A gigantic piece weighing 300 tons, equivalent to two Statues of Liberty, was hoisted almost 100 meters high in the interior of Mato Grosso do Sul to complete the largest recovery boiler in the world inside the R$ 23 billion megafactory of cellulose.

Amid the United States’ economic blockade, China delivers 15,000 tons of rice to Cuba as part of a 60,000-ton donation personally approved by Xi Jinping. The package includes 80 million dollars and solar panels for hospitals.

The largest port in SC operates ships up to 336 meters that require pilots, tugboats, and calculated maneuvers to dock, broke a record of 17.5 million tons in 2025, and is now dredging the channel to accommodate even larger ships with 16,000 containers.

A Boeing 747 freighter took off from China carrying 90 tons of oil equipment, including an 8-meter part, to Saudi Arabia because global shipping delays were already threatening to halt the client’s operations in the middle of the desert extraction field.

Nuclear warship of over 100,000 tons returns to United States missions after 15 months of maintenance, with tests completed ahead of schedule, reinforced catapults, and the naval fleet under global pressure.

A ship loaded with 800 tons of equipment set sail from China to Salvador to begin the construction of the longest bridge over the sea in Latin America, measuring 12.4 kilometers in length and featuring technology never before used on the continent.

With nearly 500 thousand tons per year, barley production is growing in Brazil, while a decline in beer consumption among Generation Z raises alarms in the sector.

The Leaning Tower Built on Shallow Foundations in Unstable Sand and Clay in the 12th Century Began to Sink When It Was Only Three Stories Tall and Was Almost Abandoned; Discover the Tower of Pisa, a Monument Weighing About 14,000 Tons and Approximately 56 Meters Tall.

She Doesn’t Dig, She Swallows Mountains: The Caterpillar 6090 FS Weighs 1,000 Tons, Has Two 4,500 Hp Engines, and Loads Giant Trucks in 4 Passes, Dumping Up to 9,000 Tons Per Hour in Heavy Mining

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Without her own home and pressured by rent, a 25-year-old bought a small 15-meter boat, gradually renovated the interior by herself, transformed the interior with paint, new flooring, a larger bathroom, and started living on the canals, paying much less per month.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.