A spatial analysis of homicides across Brazil shows intense clusters of violence around the country’s smaller cities and in rural areas, offering an insight into the importance of social factors as ...

For the first time, an international study has deciphered the genome of the population of Brazil. Published in the journal Science, the research includes the African, Native American, and European ...

Installation view of Walls of Air: The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale at Americas Society (all photos courtesy Americas Society) Political turmoil has embroiled Brazil for ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world’s scientific community has been racing to decipher this “book” written in an alphabet of four letters. The applications of these ...

Microsoft has started a project to map shanty towns in Brazil, known as favelas, as it seeks to “reduce the digital divide across the world.” According to an announcement made on Microsoft’s Bing blog ...

The Lear's macaw (Anodorhynchus leari), a species endemic to the north of the state of Bahia, Brazil, nearly went extinct in the 1990s. Thanks to conservation efforts, its population has grown to ...

Google and Microsoft may be trying hard to produce online maps for Brazil's favelas, but they've already been beaten by an old-fashioned (if very clever) paper solution. A private mail-delivery ...