Yuri Vasconcelos and Neldson Marcolin

Interview

Osvaldo Catsumi Imamura: A secure device

The engineer who created the layered security framework for Brazil’s electronic voting machine explains why the system is trustworthy

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INTERVIEW

Fabrício Bloisi: Local with global mindset

The president of Movile speaks about the future of iFood, which received funding of US$500 million, and encourages internationalization of innovative companies

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INTERVIEW

Elza Salvatori Berquó: A pioneering spirit in demography

Researcher who revealed the changes in Brazilian reproductive behavior wants to know more about youth

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Memory

The structure of matter revealed

UNESCO has chosen 2014 as the International Year of Crystallography

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Memory

The lords of the seas

Portuguese sailed even without great knowledge

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MEMORY

Recycled illuminism

The Royal Military Academy was also founded to train men of science

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MEMORY

Scientists and enthusiasts

110 years ago, the São Paulo Society of Science was founded

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Memory

Getting acquainted with the sea

The first Brazilian oceanography expedition took place 60 years ago

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Memory

Responses to time

The Emílio Ribas Infectious Diseases Institute was set up 130 years ago

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Memory

“Savages” in the museum

A group of Indians was put on display in the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition

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CRODOWALDO PAVAN

Boost for science and technology policy

Pavan acted on various fronts in support of Brazilian research

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Dieter Muehe

Dieter Muehe: Don’t forget the sea

Geographer says that it is crucial to monitor the coast and the ocean to find out what is actually going to change in terms of the climate

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Memory

Sickness caused by love and longing

A pioneering L.P. of colonial and imperial modinhas to be relaunched after 40 years

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Retrospect

Rigor and generosity

Simão Mathias was the first student to get a doctorate from the University of São Paulo's School of Philosophy, in 1942

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Retrospect

In earth as in heaven

Christian festivals and calendar are based on astronomy

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Retrospect

The height of knowledge

63 years ago, Barbara McClintock discovered on making a study of corn that the genome is not stable

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50 years ago

Climate snapshots

Oceanographer reviews studies and discussions about global warming

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Retrospect

A story-studded sky

National Observatory completes 180 years of service and research

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Retrospect

Official verdict

An unprecedented document signals the start of immunization in Brazil back in 1804

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Retrospect

Star gazing

The request for funds to observe Venus gave rise to discussions

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Retrospect

Brick by brick

Studies on global warming have been conducted for 180 years

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Retrospect

Windmill power

Created in the 19th century, wind-generated electricity is expanding worldwide

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Memory

Always in the vanguard

Carmen Portinho helped to change architecture and the arts in Rio de Janeiro

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Retrospect

In the days of maxambomba

140 years ago, the country's first urban railroad was inaugurated in Recife.

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Retrospect

The emperors and the mummies

The owner of Latin America's largest Egyptian collection, Brazil looks for resources to excavate in Tanis

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Special

100 years in the air

On the 100 year anniversary of the 14–Bis flight, Pesquisa FAPESP retraces the trajectory of Alberto Santos-Dumont, rescues little known stories and relates new details, such as the discovery of an unprecedented manuscript from the inventor of the first plane to take off, fly and land by its own means.

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Retrospect

Creation in concrete

A hundred years ago, reinforced concrete began to be used in Brazil

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Retrospect

Driven by passions

José Leite Lopes, who died at the age of 87, leaves a vast range of accomplishments

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Retrospect

The Alienist

Juliano Moreira was the first to publicize Freud in Brazil and to transform psychiatry into a medical specialty

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Design

Santos-Dumont

Exhibition in São Paulo shows little known talent of the inventor

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