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Sharks are portrayed in the popular imagination as true deadly machines — ruthless and unbeatable — but the reality is that they are being wiped out by an even more dangerous predator: man. Several species of the animal are at risk of extinction and this concrete...

Have you heard about a model rocket? Since June 2018, UFF has had a team of students from several courses that design and manufacture rockets — from the construction of the external skeleton to the manufacture of fuel. LUFFT is part of the Student Branch of the...

Between July 29 and August 2, UFF will host the 1st Latin American Radiocarbon Conference. The event, held in Niterói, represents an important stage in the recognition of research on radioactivity in Latin America — a region that had its first laboratory specialized...

Waiting for medical care, in clinics and hospitals, for many people is an experience of wasted time, but in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service of the outpatient clinic of Hospital Universitário Antonio Pedro (Huap), this is a time of learning. Since 2017, an...

In the last Brazilian elections, social media played a decisive role when people voted for the candidates of their choice. Election campaigns were leveraged over the internet, through social networks, and instant messaging applications. This phenomenon, related to the...

The UFF community has reasons to celebrate: this Tuesday was released the university ranking of Times Higher Education (THE) and the UFF rose 12 positions amongst the best Latin-American institutions. The year before, the university was in 45th place and, this year,...

Education and sports fields, although distinct, can relate in different ways. One of the ways for UFF to promote this link is through the Bolsa Atleta program, which offers a BRL400 scholarship for each selected student. The initiative, created in 2012, encourages...

Many and undeniable are the differences between men and women, from anatomical to behavioral. But one difference, in particular, draws attention at a time when the feminist movement in Brazil and the world is strengthening and, with it, the achievement of rights...

The Universidade Federal Fluminense inaugurated last Friday, May 31, a new center of excellence of the institution: the Centro de Ciência Social Histórica sobre Desigualdades Globais (Center for historical social science on global inequalities). The space will bring...

Unsurprisingly, the phenomena of climate change and rising temperatures on Earth, as a result of a change in atmospheric balance, have been increasingly common around the world. What is not known is that other events of radical transformations in nature have also...

The Coca-Cola brand was created by accountant Frank Robinson, who also designed the traditional logo by hand after his friend and pharmacist John Pemberton invented soda in 1886 in the United States. However, his intention was not exactly to create a soda, but rather...

“Born to compete”. The motto summarizes well the spirit of The Myths Brazil Team (TMB), a project of Universidade Federal Fluminense and the Mechanical Engineering Tutorial Education Program (PET MEC) that brings together a group of students from different university...

The latest edition of the ranking of the best universities in the world, the Round University Ranking, launched this month, presents the Universidade Federal Fluminense as the 6th highest rated in the country.

Many students dream of an exchange program. Even so, choosing a destination that meets your expectations is not always easy. Venturing into another country, with a different culture, language and ways of thinking is a challenge that many hope to face in order to...

Research that studies possible links between pesticides used in Brazil and the development of obesity and other related diseases, such as diabetes, is being carried out at the Nova Friburgo Health Institute (ISNF on its Portuguese acronym). The coordinator of the...

Have you ever imagined a fully connected city, with its transportation, governance, education, street lighting, and renewable energy systems operating seamlessly with its citizens? This type of urban functioning already exists and is called Smart City (SC). At UFF,...

Caring for the elderly and investing in the care of those who have reached old age is increasing worldwide. The decrease in the number of births in recent years is slowly aging the planet. Some countries, such as Brazil, are no longer known as young nations since the...

The UFF hosted, on November 29th and 30th, the International Seminar “Italian and Brazilian Sanitary Reforms: Trajectories and Perspectives”, which discussed the project to install an “intermediate care unit” in Niterói, among other issues. The initiative took place...