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Projects

Recent Thematic and Young Investigator projects

Projects contracted in September and October 2014

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Careers

What is expected of a trainee

Initiative is expected of candidates in selection processes

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Careers

Students for industrial PhD

CNPq-funded pilot program at UFABC offers PhD tied to product development

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Photolab

Shapes from the nanoworld

Shapes from the nanoworld

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Recognition

From Blue LED to the Brain’s GPS

Nobel Prizes highlights advances in microscopy and neuroscience

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OBITUARY

The tropical disease scientist

Hildebrando was one of the most respected parasitology experts in the world

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careers

São Paulo at the British Career Expo

FAPESP participated in Naturejobs and attracted skilled foreign researchers

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careers

An eclectic career path

Marcos Jank has been a professor at USP and today is an executive at BRF

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food

Toxin in peanuts

Unicamp identifies toxic substance and antioxidant in peanuts

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metals

Beware of chocolate

Brazilian chocolate contains small quantities of cadmium and lead

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botany

Tiny pools in the sertão

Bromeliad leaves create a natural trap for pollen in the badlands

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clothing

Spacesuit of the future

MIT develops lighter and form-fitting spacesuit

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diabetes

As bad as sugar, or worse

Artificial sweeteners' effects may be the opposite of desired

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sustainability

The second generation is arriving

Plant starts to make ethanol from sugarcane harvest leftovers

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biological clock

Why we are daytime creatures

Genetics may explain why humans and monkeys have diurnal habits

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paleontology

The pains of a sloth

Bone lesion identified on giant sloth fossil

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best friend

Man’s best friend

Dogs are more interested in people's actions than in objects

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universe

Galactic disks

Current galaxies are a product of repeated collisions, specialists say

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mimetism

Inspired by octopuses

MIT scientists reproduce squid and octopus' color changing ability

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historical tremor

When the Amazon shook

Magnitude 7 earthquake happened on the left bank of the Amazon

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space

Ethanol-fueled rocket

Brazilian suborbital rocket successfully launched

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embrapa

Mapped soils

Digital maps of Brazilian soils may contribute to conservation

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photonics

The light that sees what it couldn’t see

Group takes photographs without using light particles

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redemprendia

Ibero-American Cooperation

Unicamp joins Ibero-American cooperative program

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José Goldemberg

Goldemberg wins prize

Physicist awarded Education Warrior Trophy

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Greenhouse effect

European help in the Peruvian Amazon

Germany and Norway support lowering deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon

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low cost

India reaches Mars

India's space probe reaches the planet Mars

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Reorganization

Reform at the academy

Chinese Academy of Science achieves biggest changes of its history

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Niède Guidon

Out of her own pocket

Archeologist donates part of her Conrado Wessel award

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high resolution

Topography revealed

Nasa will publish Earth's topographic images from 2000

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