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The Ministry of Education, in partnership with the Secretariat of the Interministerial Commission for Marine Resources of Marinha do Brasil, granted UFF the management of the school ship Ciências do Mar III (CMIII), which will provide on-board practical teaching and...

Japanese drawings are a hit with Brazilian teenagers. With millions of fans around the world, animes — as they are popularly known — arrived in Brazil in the late 1960s, but it was only after the 1990s that they began to become more influential for the country's...

According to data from the 2010 Census, 2 million Brazilian residents declare themselves to be of yellow color or race, a number that has grown 177% in a decade. The term “yellow” refers to descendants of Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Koreans, and other groups whose...

Sanctioned in January 2004, the law 10,835 sought to change the scenario of social inequalities in Brazil by instituting a program guaranteeing annual monetary benefits for Brazilian residents and foreigners residing for at least five years in the country. However,...

Across the planet, the number of plants consumed by man has dropped from 10,000 to 170 in the past 100 years, according to data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. In Brazil, despite its wealth of ingredients easily found in nature, the market...

After Europeans arrived in the Americas, a considerable portion of the original populations was decimated. This massacre can be described not only in terms of the pitiful loss of human life, but also the consequent disappearance of all its cultural heritage: its...

Six in the morning. The alarm goes off. A hand goes to the device, turns it off. The other brings the cell phone closer. The messages are quickly answered. A few steps out of bed and, suddenly, an encounter with the image of you in the mirror. It seems that the rest...

On the morning of November 25, Universidade Federal Fluminense hosted the Opening Table of the 20th Meeting of Presidents of Grupo Tordesillas. On the occasion, the vice-president of UFF, Professor Fabio Passos, signed the Agreement between the group and the Fundación...

Investigating a crime is a task that goes beyond the walls of police stations. Intelligence work is fundamental to the satisfactory resolution of police cases. This activity requires a range of specific materials and expert studies. The recognition of fingerprints —...

Little known by Brazilians, the Amazônia Azul — also known as Brazil's Exclusive Economic Zone — is the maritime territory of Brazil, corresponding to an area of 4.5 million square kilometers, equivalent to more than half of the country's continental area. Brazil...

Justice, from the Latin justitia, means “law, equity, administration of the law.” And what is justice if not one of the pillars of society? Precisely for this reason, UFF professor and public defender Cleber Francisco Alves, since his doctoral research, seeks to...

In 2018, according to the Federal Pharmacy Council, Brazil registered 87,794 private pharmacies and 11,251 public drugstores. The number grows every year and, with it, the consumption of medicines. But the discussion about the proper disposal of these substances does...

On September 27, the professor of the Institute of Computing (IC-UFF), Michael Stanton, was admitted to the Internet Hall of Fame for his contribution to the development of the global internet. The ceremony was held in San José, Costa Rica. Michael, who is also a...

The project Niterói: Cidade do Audiovisual, a partnership between the city of Niterói, the Municipal Secretary of Culture, and the National Film Agency (Ancine) represents a promising investment for the region's film industry, whose main ally is the University Federal...

The result takes into account data from 2017 evaluated by Times Higher Education, a survey that considers a select group of leading higher education institutions in the world   The Universidade Federal Fluminense obtained a significant improvement in the factors...

The 2018 World Tuberculosis Report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) identified few potential treatment alternatives for antibiotic-resistant infections, one of which is the so-called multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which kills more than one...

There are many ways to access a past or present time in human history, with its ways of existing, of organizing life, and relating. One of the keys to knowing each of these periods is through the modes of suffering that took place in it. Anorexia, depression, and...

Between July 29 and August 9, UFF, through the International Cooperation Office, brought together students from seven different countries in the first edition of Brazil: Life and Culture, a vacation course offered to its foreign students and which has as main...