In Brazil these stars do not have a unique meaning. Teams put them on uniforms for a variety of reasons. They are almost always used to remember great titles conquered, but there are also those that mark the foundation date…
Termites form a highly organized society and spend most of their day working in their nest. “The population of a termite mound can reach millions of individuals and is divided into three basic castes: a royal couple, soldiers and workers”,…
Reader Question – Eduardo Apolinario Fumagalli, Ronda Alta, RS From the color of your eyes to the texture of your earwax, chromosomes are responsible for controlling every function in your body. They are formed by DNA, a chemical code composed…
The secret is a complex combination of special coating and smart design. The purpose of a stealth plane is to enter hostile territory, carry out its mission, and return safely undetected by the enemy. To achieve this, it is not…
(/) For starters, water doesn’t wet everything. “There are very wet things, like paper. Others less so, like glass (it gets wet but doesn’t soak) and some that simply don’t get wet, like some types of plastic”, says chemist Watson…
ILLUSTRATES Icarus Yuji With small motors activated by remote control, which move every detail of the figure’s expression. This type of puppet was widely used before the popularization of computer graphics, in films such as ET – The Extraterrestrial (1982),…
Forget Titanic It is Avatar. We’re talking about the features that cost little and returned the investment several times over at the box office*. Hollywood loves a money machine! Together, these ten titles have had 33 sequels and remakes. 10.…
Fine mixture This small African nation of 17.3 million people mixes different ethnicities and cultures. About 40% of the population is Mossi, but there are other groups such as the Gurunsis, the Senufo and even the tuaregs (pictured above), a…
It was not written by a single author, it is a collective creation. “The Bible is a set of books written by varied and often unknown authors. Several books are the result of a collective production over time”, says religion…
The Black Panthers emerged as a group that advocated armed resistance against black oppression. Founded in October 1966, the group was born promising to patrol black-majority neighborhoods to protect their residents against police violence. The movement spread across the US…