(Available in English) Observar o movimento suave gerado por centenas de peixes enquanto nadam em uníssono é algo fascinante. Mas não é apenas pela beleza, que os cientistas do laboratório de Comportamento Coletivo do […]

(Available in English) Observar o movimento suave gerado por centenas de peixes enquanto nadam em uníssono é algo fascinante. Mas não é apenas pela beleza, que os cientistas do laboratório de Comportamento Coletivo do […]
(Disponível em português) Watching the smooth movement generated by hundreds of fish as they swim in unison is truly mesmerising. But it’s not only its sheer beauty that makes it so hard to […]
A mere fortnight had passed since the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of the United States, a short period that has sent shock waves throughout the world. Whether you are a supporter […]
After finding “the one” and getting “in the mood” comes the grand finale, “a happy ending”. In the third and last part of this series on the Neurobiology of Sex, Susana Lima, principal […]
In the first part of this 3-part series, Susana Lima, head of the Neuroethology lab at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, told us about her work on mate choice, a process by which individuals […]
Pleasure, pain, hormones, nature, nurture… There are many players that determine when or even if sex happens. In this short, 3-parts series, Susana Lima, head of the Neuroethology lab at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in […]
Is there any point in searching for the origin of life when so many diseases are yet to be beaten? What is the point of research? Is it to understand the origin of […]
What are these mysterious pregnancy food cravings? Why do pregnant women experience them? Is it the body demanding what it needs, or is it just an unhinging of secret yearnings, normally frowned upon […]
What does Bonsai, the Japanese art form of carefully shaping miniature trees have to do with scientific research? For Gonçalo Lopes, a graduate student at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Bonsai perfectly […]