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What is it?

What is it?

Thermal inversion

Ask the researchers

Ask the researchers

How can twins differ in the ability of rolling tongue?

Good practices

New stimuli for ethics in research

New stimuli for ethics in research

Good practices

Conflict of interest

Conflict of interest

Projects

Recent Thematic projects and Young Researcher awards

Projects awarded in June and July of 2012

Photolab

Bees’ sense of smell

Bees detect smells with their antennae

celestial bodies

Eta Carinae: more than an eclipse

Two phenomena cause periodical blackout of the star Eta Carinae

Obituary

Between ethics and spirit

Flávio Pierucci, interpreter of contemporary Brazilian religiousness

Breakfast

The benefits of breakfast

Skipping morning meal favors obesity

Cell phone

Application for cell phone helps the visually impaired

Application helps the visually impaired

Stem cells

Pluripotency gene

One gene activates others, important for pluripotency

Brazilian silicon

Brazilian silicon for solar cells

Solar cells obtained with same purity as imported ones

odorless

Odorless glue

Glue makes car bullet proofing more efficient

Migrations

Yeast migration

Yeast helps understand microorganisms' global dispersion

Partnerships

Partnerships with the United Kingdom

FAPESP signs cooperation agreements with UK

Journalism magazine

An analysis of journalism

Revista de Jornalismo ESPM was launched in May; it is the first Brazilian version of the Columbia Journalism Review, one of the world’s most influential journals on journalism, started 50 years ago by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York. In addition to printing translations of articles published in the US edition, the... View Article

FAPESP

Unicamp's Dean appointed to Governing Board

José Reis

Fundaj is granted the José Reis Award

The Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (Fundaj), from the city of Recife, won the José Reis Scientific and Technological Dissemination Award for 2012, granted by the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The 32nd edition of Brazil’s foremost award for scientific disseminatoin included the Institution and Media Communication category. The Foundation provides a number of... View Article

Ask the researchers

Ask the researchers

How do skin moisturizers work?

What is it?

What is it?

Geographic North and magnetic North

Good practices

Having been summoned, scientists deliver e-mails sent to BP

Having been summoned, scientists deliver e-mails sent to BP

Good practices

Prime minister of Romania accused of plagiarism

Prime minister of Romania accused of plagiarism

Photolab

Nanotechnology and art

Nanotechnology and art

Fish

How to discover the gender of the arapaima fish

Laparoscopy helps defining gender of arapaima fish

e-commerce

Intelligent e-commerce

New technology helps optimizing on-line business metrics

Bacteria

Bacteria in heart valves

S. aureus may be dangerous for patients with cardiac implants

Single seater

The advance of electric cars

In Brazil, first electric car for competitions

Glaciation

The snowball was smaller

"Snowball Earth" hypothesis contested

Cancer

Partnership against cancer

Partnership for creation of Molecular Oncology Center

Best dissertation

Best dissertation in 2010

Best 2010 Ph.D work on urban rivers