Fashion

Polícia fecha ponto clandestino de combustível em lava a jato nesse sábado, 14

Interior Esquema foi descoberto após denúncia; dono é suspeito de comprar combustível desviado de caminhões-tanque Por Bruna Marques | 14/06/2025 08:46 Galões usados para armazenar combustível de forma clandestina foram apreendidos pela Polícia Civil (Foto: Divulgação/PCMS) A Polícia Civil desarticulou um esquema de venda clandestina de combustíveis, que funcionava dentro de um comércio de polimento...

Science

The hunger switch in your nose: How smells tell your brain to stop eating

No more hunger after cooking? A newly identified network of nerve cells is responsible, a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has discovered in mice. They discovered a direct connection from the nose to a group of nerve cells in the brain that are activated by the smell of food and,...

Science & Technology

Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate to another

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents evidence that subduction can spread like a contagion, jumping from one oceanic plate to another — a hypothesis previously difficult to prove. This result “is...