Marcos Pivetta

Astrophysics

Sentinel in the cosmic darkness

Super radio telescope is looking for the earliest stars in the Universe

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CLIMATE

A heat island in the Amazon

A heat island in the Amazon

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A GATHERING OF NOTABLES

Five Nobel Laureates at a Single Symposium

Event honors American physicist and brings together a quintet of Laureates

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Brian Schmidt

Brian Schmidt: The dark energy enigma

New methods are needed to measure the composition of the Universe

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Paleontology

The tapeworm and the shark

Fossilized feces of fish 270 million years old contain tapeworm eggs

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Beatriz Barbuy

Beatriz Barbuy: In the wake of the first stars

Astrophysics talks about the formation of the first stars of the Milky Way

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Cover

More bits in the service of DNA

Brazilian bioinformaticians create tools for studying genomes

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COVER

The subverted skull

Research that links male facial width to aggressive behavior is challenged

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HUMAN EVOLUTION

Traces of miscegenation

Human virus reflects migrations between ethnic groups in the state of Pará

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Climate

A Heat Island in the Amazon

The urban area of the city of Manaus is 3ºC warmer than the forest

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muscular dystrophy

Joint treatment

Joint treatment

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Memory

Therapies for the tropics

Book by a barber-surgeon describes the cures used in 18th century

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Paleontology

Nest of a “flamingrebe”

Fossilized nest support relationship between flamingos and grebes

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João Evangelista Steiner

João Evangelista Steiner: Astronomical leaps

USP's astrophysical talks about changes in Brazilian astronomy

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Science

Spoan: a new illness

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

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Ecology

Jatoba against pollution

Tropical trees may be an option for cleaning the atmosphere, should the greenhouse effects increase

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Cover

The weakness of stem cells

Contamination may be the cause of poor results in treating Parkinson's disease

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Science

More than an eclipse

The collapse of stellar winds extends the cyclical blackout of the Eta Carinae star

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Archeology

Tips from a distant past

Ten-thousand-year-old stone weapons from the State of São Paulo differ from prehistoric artifacts found in southern Brazil

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Bruce Alberts

Bruce Alberts: We need to teach science

Editor-in-chief of Science proposes changes in science teaching

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Nobel

Meeting of Nobel laureates

City brings together laureates to inspire new generations of scientists

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Twin star

A second sun

In the Dragon constellation, Suns's almost perfect copy

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Human genetics

The dystrophy center

Group identifies new genes and forms of neuromuscular disease in Brazil

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Evolution

Luzia’s America

Excavations reinforce an alternative theory of the peopling of the continent

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Borborema range

The origin of the mountain

Northeastern plain may have been formed around 30 million years ago

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Muscular distrophy

Joint treatment

Stem cells and growth factor combined reduce symptoms in mice

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Cover

More than an eclipse

Collapse of stellar winds prolongs the cyclical blackout of the Eta Carinae

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Information technology

The new wave of qubits

Systems could have a quantum feature useful for computer sciences

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Walter Neves

Walter Neves: Luzia’s father

Archeologist developed a theory on man’s arrival to the Americas

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Climate

From drizzle to downpour

More frequent storms and increased rainfall in São Paulo

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