Issue # 175 _ September 2010
S&T Policy
internationalization
Combined efforts
FAPESP resorts to a set of initiatives to make São Paulo research more competitive abroad
Climate change

Denying the changes
Book shows how three physicists dedicated themselves to fighting the idea of global warming in the USA
Science
Astrophysics

The Sun and its sisters
Brazilians identify stars similar to the one that warms and lights up the Earth
Medicine

Family histories
Specialists track genetic syndrome in parents that might cause successive cancers
Parasitology

Hidden aggressiveness
Team from Unicamp overturns the idea that there is a mild form of malaria
Nutrigenomics

Health at the table
International committee gives body to research into the relation between genes and nutrition
Technology
Forestry engineering

Flexible anatomy
Bamboo, which grows very fast, has new forms and uses in Brazil
Chemical Engineering

Advanced plastic
Material gains impact-related resistance and lower combustion properties
Alberto de Castro

Mister IPT
Alberto de Castro, an expert on technological development, was very important for the Institute