Neldson Marcolin

Memory

The control of electronics

Sixty years ago, Bell Labs introduced the transistor

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Retrospect

Parallel paths

Some 175 years ago Hercule Florence, who lived in up-state.

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Memory

The price of old science

Rare scientific books go for millions of dollars in US auction

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Memory

Help from the past

Four small hydroelectric power plants are generating electricity again

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Newton da Costa

Newton da Costa: Passion and contradiction

The mathematician who created paraconsistent logic has three books republished

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Memory

Fungus in the air

Adolpho Lutz published two articles describing a new disease, 100 years ago

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Memory

Like firewater

In 1925, researchers tested 70% alcohol in internal combustion engines

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Alexandre Kalache

Alexandre Kalache: A policy for ageing well

Creator of age-friendly cities says that this issue is important for the country's development

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Retrospect

Recovered treasure

1936 film on Rio de Janeiro shows how the Internet helps to recover the past

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Interview

Luis Fernandes: The motor of development

Finep President modernizes management to turn technological innovation into an agent of growth

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Memory

Star gazing

The request for funds to observe Venus gave rise to discussions

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Interview

Henrique Lins de Barros: From the atom to the airplane

LÉO RAMOSIn Henrique Lins de Barros’s office at CBPF, the Brazilian Physics Research Center in the district of Urca, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, there is a picture on the wall on the right. On the left side there is a poster showing details of a multicellular organism, Candidatus Magnetoglobus multicellularis. In the... View Article

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Retrospect

Alcohol conversion

Of the three cars that crisscrossed the country to publicize the new fuel in 1976, only one is still standing

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Interview

Esper Abrão Cavalheiro: The reconstruction of man

Given its potential for profoundly altering human performance, the new convergence of technologies must be debated by the scientific community

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Retrospect

20th century Bandeirantes (Trailblazers)

121 years ago a wild region of São Paulo began to be explored

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Interview

Angelo Machado: Between books and dragonflies

GLÁUCIA RODRIGUESResearcher Angelo Machado has the habit of taking big leaps from time to time. Graduated as a physician, he specialized in neuroanatomy. Once retired, he entered an entrance exam for zoology and became a renowned entomologist. When 50 years old, he began to write books for children and is an acclaimed author. Simultaneously with... View Article

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Thomaz Farkas: Optimist and raving, but not too much

EDUARDO CESARIn a 15-minute documentary made by Walter Lima Júnior in 2004, at one point Thomaz Farkas, 82 years old, tells that he ought to have been born in Brazil, because in 1924 his parents were already living over here. Without many resources, when the moment of the birth drew close, they asked Farkas’s maternal... View Article

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Retrospect

Indigenous cartography

Some 62 years ago, Curt Nimuendaju completed his Mapa Etno-Hist

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Retrospect

Atoms for peace

Ipen completes 50 years with good services rendered by means of nuclear power

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Retrospect

The rebirth of the Patriarch

A project publishes, on-line, documents, books and images brought together about José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

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Philanthropy and Science

Piracicaba's Old People's Home completes 100 years looking after the elderly with the help of the university

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Interview

Angelita Habr-Gama: Victory in a mine field

MIGUEL BOYAYANThe medical doctor Angelita Habr-Gama has three personality traits common to successful professionals: perseverance, a huge capacity for work and contagious optimism. Together with these qualities is an enormous talent in her specialty, surgery of the digestive tract, which is sufficient to separate out professor Angelita from the role of the highly successful person... View Article

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Retrospect

The multiple scientist

Some 136 years ago Charles Hartt carried out the first archeological research in the Amazon

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Interview

Gilberto Câmara: For a new space program

Gilberto Câmara, director-general of the Inpe, proposes a space program aimed at the national needs

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Retrospect

Forest Watchers

Evandro Chagas Institute completes 70 years of researching endemics in the Amazonian region

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Retrospect

The invisible revealing radiation

110 years ago, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays

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Isaias Raw

Isaias Raw: A battling scientist

A battling scientist

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Interview

José Fernando Perez: A route of opening up to society

A route of opening up to society

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Ismail Xavier: Visions on stage

The critic and professor analyzes the dialog between the Brazilian cinema and the Nelson Rodrigues theater

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Memory

A promising start

At the early age of 20, Oswaldo Cruz published his first work

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