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Interview
We and the monkeys
The Director of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology researches what makes us different from the chimpanzee
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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The art of seeing that which was invisible
The art of seeing that which was invisible
Public Policies
The metropolis begins to breathe
Control of pollutants emission saves lives in Sao Paulo
Scientific Divulging
At the head of the news
José Hamilton Ribeiro wins a prestigious award in journalism
Aeronautical engineering
In flight impact
A study helps to forecast the resistance limit of an airplane's fuselage
By Revisor
Materials engineering
Beautiful, smooth and impermeable
Company develops a material that substitutes granite, marble and steel
Communication
Who has power over the fourth power?
Blogs demystify journalism and dictate the news
By Carlos Haag
Retrospect
Philanthropy and Science
Piracicaba's Old People's Home completes 100 years looking after the elderly with the help of the university
Literature
In the shadow of the past
The 125th anniversary of the birth of Stefan Zweig
By Carlos Haag
Visual arts
The design of an era
The growing concern with the visual conception of graphic arts in Brazil
Public policies
A monitored stroll in the park
A new system evaluates and guards against environmental impact in parks
Interview
Emilio Moran: A world in change
MIGUEL BOYAYANWhen he talks about global climatic changes, anthropologist Emilio Moran seems capable of catching the attention of even the most skeptical of the anti-environmentalists. Perhaps because, instead of only detaining himself on numbers – whether of animal and plant species in the process of extinction, or of more or less degrees Celsius of the... View Article
By Fabrício Marques and Mariluce Moura
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Under the sign of change
Under the sign of change
Virology
Men in the spotlight
Masculine sexual health helps to contain a virus linked to uterus cancer
Metallurgy
Knowledge & opportunity
Company uses metallic powders for the production of industrial filters