Marcos Pivetta
Interview

Diógenes de Almeida Campos: Official stones and bones
Paleontologist affirms that Brazil could be as important as China and criticizes fossil contraband
Ecology
Shadows over the forest
Clouds of smoke from forest clearing fires cool down the Amazon forest
Genomics

On the trail of a vaccine
Brazilians sequence the genome of the bacterium that causes leptospirosis
Cover

The quantum leap of Brazilian science
National research goes professional, incorporating group work and improving its world ranking
Interview

Ruth e Victor Nussenzweig: A chemistry that worked out
The couple talks about the advances in the search for vaccines against malaria and of the life of a scientist, here and in the United States
Statistical Physics
The little homeland in soccer shoes
Only three degrees of separation are interposed between all Brazilian players
Cover

Other stars, other worlds
Planets outside the solar system heat up the race for finding more Earths
Gilberto De Nucci

Gilberto De Nucci: The medicine radical
The medicine radical
By Marcos Pivetta and Ricardo Zorzetto
Interview

Iván Izquierdo: Recollections and omissions
Neuroscientist talks about the importance of memories and also of forgetting
neuroscience

The brain in action
Experiment suggests that the activity of neurons could move prostheses
Cover

Weighty Extinction
Theory proposes that excessive rainfall eliminated mammals in South America
Pharmacology

Iron against tuberculosis
A metallic compound kills Koch’s bacillus with fewer side effects
Biosafety
The news from the East
South Koreans extract stem cells from a human embryo and reopen polemic
Interview

Mayana Zatz: One eye on reason, the other on the heart
One eye on reason, the other on the heart
PALEOBOTANY

The flora that came in from the cold
São Paulo shelters fossils of plants that grew alongside glaciers
Ecology

Investment in water
Petrobras invests in environmental preservation projects on the theme of water
Schistosoma mansoni

Inside the parasite
Identification of genes gains international prominence