(DenKuvaiev/iStock) No, although the cases are less known. “The distribution of Down syndrome is the same for everyone”, says geneticist Paulo Alberto Otto, from the University of São Paulo (USP). The syndrome may not distinguish color before birth, but there…
(/) He is the prophet and the most important figure of Islam. Born in Mecca in the year 570 as Muhammad, he spent most of his life as an illiterate merchant, but at the age of 40 he would have…
»> The direction that the hands of current clocks follow came with the first clocks in the world, the sundials, around 5000 BC Despite not having hands, they marked the hours through the shadow projected by a rod at the…
A lot of people don’t even imagine, but on the sandy beaches several marine species live hidden. They are difficult animals to see because they are very small – some even invisible to the naked eye – and because they…
»> It is a benign disorder that occurs in the first of the six nocturnal passages from a deep sleep to a more superficial one: the motor functions awaken, but the conscience continues to sleep. In general, the person starts…
ILLUSTRATIONS Andre Toma how can you check in this part of the report, Freemasonry had subdivisions and adaptations over time. Today, it has a common base, but later evolves into more than 50 different hierarchies (the so-called Rites). Only two…
These birds, domesticated by man for centuries, are so closely related that they are classified as members of the same family, the Anatidae. They only differ in genera and their respective species. In common, ducks, geese, mallards and swans have…
– (Leandro Lassmar/) The cusp is the midway point where the Sun is in transition, crossing the last degree of one constellation to enter the first degree of the next. In a simpler way, it is the date on which…
– (Playback/Playback) A recently published study argues that Lorax, a children’s character created by the American writer Dr. Seuss, was inspired by a species of African monkey. Since the animal appeared, in the 70’s, it was not known exactly what…
Around 1 million people – 989,042, precisely – are having sex as you read this. It is as if the entire population of São Luís, the capital of Maranhão (957 thousand people, according to an estimate by the Brazilian Institute…