International issue | December de 2005

Articles in the spotlight

With 134 magazines, the SciELO Brazil library gains more visibility and attracts new sponsors

Archeology

Rediscovering the New World

Ten sets of human bones from Brazilian prehistory suggest that the first inhabitants of the Americas were not Mongoloids

Wide awake

Lack of sleep activates sexuality, increases the sensitivity to pain and damages the liver and heart

Spoan: a new illness

Consanguineous marriages bring about an unknown form of deficiency in a Northeast town

Physics

Friendly chaos

Apparently disorganized behaviors may benefit living beings and chemical reactions

Nanotubes on the market

Tiny carbon parts are already on sale for universities and companies

Sparkling whiteness

Partnership between a university and company makes the production of a new pigment for the paints industry possible

From nature to the drugstore

An anti-inflammatory made from the extract of a plant from the Atlantic Rainforest, is ready to go on the market

Deep Stability

Researchers from USP develop an unprecedented project for a platform to extract oil on the high seas

A fiber for all handiwork

Dry Curauá leaves have wide use; from car parts to clothes and medicines

Molecule factory

Partnership between the Applied Toxinology Center and a pharmaceutical company results in an analgesic that is more potent than morphine

Sociology

Has the nation hung up its soccer shoes?

In Brazil, football is something serious, seen by specialists as a paradigm of globalization

Economy

The other side of fortune

Studies try to understand what makes a rich man rich

Music

This so-and-so samba

Academic world tries to understand how a genre was transformed into the most important one of Brazilian music in the 20th century

The historical magic of the wizard of Cosme Velho

Study shows Machado de Assis, novelist or civil servant, as a critic of Brazilian truculence