(UFU - 2017 - 1ª FASE)
Could Eating a Second Breakfast Help You Lose Weight?
by Alexa Erickson
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? So why not have two? There’s a growing trend promoting a “second breakfast” as a weight-loss mechanism. The idea: If y...
(UFU - 2017 - 1ª FASE)
SpaceX successfully launches secret government spy satellite
First stage of Falcon 9 rocket lands back at Cape Canaveral
SpaceX launched a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government Monday morning and then successfully landed the booster for recycling....
(UFU - 2017 - 1ª FASE)
Rare ‘Coffin Birth' Found in Black Death Burial Site
by Rossella Lorenzi
Researchers investigating a 14th century burial ground have identified a rare case of "coffin birth" - a gruesome phenomenon in which a deceased pregnant woman's fetus...
(UFU - 2017 - 1ª FASE)
Surgeons Conduct Head Transplants on Rats, Say Humans Are Next
After 14 head transplants on rats, a pair of surgeons say they will attempt a human head transplant in the next 10 months in China....
(UFU - 2017 - 1ª FASE)
Most Teens Take a Voluntary Week-Long Break From Social Media
by Barbara Ortutay
The common stereotype has teens glued to their phones 24-7. But nearly 60 percent of teens in the U.S. have actually taken a break from social media — the bulk of them voluntari...
(UFU - 2017 - 1ª FASE)
INNOVATIONS
Facebook's Wild Vision for the Future
by Lisa Eadicicco
Regina Dugan, Facebook's vice president of engineering and head of its secretive Building 8, the future is full of revolutionary technologies that will enable us to communicate without t...
(UFU - 2017 - 2ª FASE)
Coca-Cola Is Adding Fiber to Coke. Does That Make It Healthy?
by Cynthia Sass
When I heard about Coca-Cola Plus, a zero-calorie Coke with added fiber, I thought it was an April Fool’s joke I somehow missed. Especially when the company claimed this ridiculous...
(UFU - 2017 - 2ª FASE)
Ancient-human genomes plucked from cave dirt
by Ewen Callaway
Bones and teeth aren’t the only ways to learn about extinct human relatives. For the first time, researchers have recovered ancient-human DNA without having obvious remains — just dirt from the ca...
(UFU - 2017 - 2ª FASE)
Programming as a Way of Thinking
by Allen Downey
In first generation languages like FORTRAN and C, the burden was on programmers to translate high-level concepts into code. With modern programming languages — ’ll use Python as an example — we use funct...