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The growing anthropic influence on the dynamic and natural balance of the planet and its currently changing climate has been reported in a large amount of the modern scientific literature, converging to the consensus that the impacts in the physical, economic and...

"It is not easy to be a pioneer in Brazil acting in such a Eurocentric science as Physics". The phrase is authored by UFF Physics Institute (IF) professor Antonio Zelaquett Khoury, founder, and coordinator of the university's Optics and Quantum Information Laboratory....

Gas station attendants and app drivers are some of the new professions that absorb most workers who have not found in their original occupations a possible means of subsistence. These new jobs, which do not require extensive technical knowledge to operate and are...

A little over a year ago, when the pandemic was threatening to take hold in our country, we watched in horror as the average number of deaths per day from COVID-19 in Italy, the epicenter of the disease in the world up to that time, was high. The sum totaled around...

For UFF President Antonio Claudio Lucas da Nóbrega, "this is another fruit of the Program for the Development of Applied Projects - PDPA, a partnership we built between UFF, the Government of Niterói, and the Euclides da Cunha Foundation, aiming to develop and...

Since the mid-twentieth century, the term "third world" has been used to represent the group of countries considered underdeveloped, generally located in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The expression was created by the French economist Alfred Sauvy, who, based on...

Although the shape of our planet – which is spherical by nature – never changes, the modes of symbolic representation of its structure can be altered over time, as in the case of maps. For each new territory identified and discovered, a ritual of cataloging and naming...

The oceans cover about two-thirds of the Earth's surface; however, they are still little known and conserved. The protection of life in the water is the theme of the Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the United Nations (UN), which officially launched last Tuesday...

The world is becoming increasingly "high tech". The most recent technical advances in science have opened up the scope for technology to expand, and today we have systems such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), an innovation that can be used to improve the way we live...

Although they do not figure as agendas of the current government, biodiversity conservation and the fight against climate change have been the subject of works developed in several research centers and public universities in the country. This is the case, for example,...

Rural tourism emerges as one of the most relevant sectors in the post-pandemic context, driven by consumer preferences for short trips and outdoor activities, according to data from the Ministry of Tourism (MTur). In 2020, this was the segment considered a priority by...

The more than 4.7 thousand associated fishermen in the municipality of Santana have a new place aimed at training, qualification, and professional support. Last Thursday (28), the laboratory of the Centro Vocacional Tecnológico (Vocational Technological Center – CVT)...

Despite the oscillations in the levels of progression of COVID-19 in Brazil in recent months, the Universidade Federal Fluminense has kept active several actions aimed at facing the pandemic and reducing its impact on society. One example, among many, is the Food and...

Although much is reported in the media about how children and teenagers seem to be less susceptible to the severe forms of manifestation of the novel coronavirus, little has been said so far about the impact of the pandemic on their biopsychosocial development, once...

"A carne mais barata do mercado é a carne negra" (The cheapest meat on the market is black meat). This phrase sung by Elza Soares in the song A Carne is, in fact, a metaphor for the real situation of the racial relations established in our society. In Brazil, the...

Eight professors from Universidade Federal Fluminense are included in the ranking prepared by the PLOS Biology journal which lists the most influential researchers in the world. In total, 600 Brazilian researchers were recognized by the scientific publication. The...

In the middle of the 21st century, talking about drugs in Brazil is still taboo, although the number of deaths resulting from government policies to combat them multiplies year after year. According to data from the Brazilian Observatory on Drug Information, for...

The cinema is alive! This is the impression of those who watch the images told in reports by the many characters that animated the history of UFF's Cinema and Audiovisual Studies undergraduation throughout its more than 50 years of existence. There are many scenes,...