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Economics
The authoritarian currency
Project discusses the relationship between the Central Bank and politics
By Carlos Haag
Economics
Size matters
Survey shows that high interest rates only benefit the financial system
By Carlos Haag
Culture
The beau of the tropics
The effort of Manuel Araújo Porto-Alegre to civilize the nation with culture
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Of traverses and transpositions
Of traverses and transpositions
Architecture
The school that made the city
Books dimensions importance of the Polytechnic in the 20th century
Electrical Engineering
Digital farming
Company develops precision equipment for use in agriculture
New Materials
A different type of magnet
Graphite developed by a research team has magnetic properties
Retrospect
A long journey
Some one hundred and thirty years ago the trajectory of the first Brazilian women doctors began
Investments
Mapping innovation
Third edition of FAPESP's Indicators registers increase in spending on S&T
Telecommunications
The light partners
The KyaTera Project integrates dozens of laboratories by way of optical fibers
Inclusion
The multiplication of ideas
Network wants to spread useful technologies to poor communities
Anthropology
In the name of God
Project rescues the true relationship between missionaries and Native Indians
By Carlos Haag
Economy
The lobby goes up to the Presidential Palace
Studies reveal the relationship between the Powers and the pressure groups
By Carlos Haag
Music
This so-and-so samba
Academic world tries to understand the importance of Samba in the 20th century
Interview
Carlos Augusto Monteiro: From privation to excess of food
From privation to excess of food
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A journey between pain, pleasure and ethics
A journey between pain, pleasure and ethics
Epidemiology
Gracias a la Vida
Latin American women learn to live with the Aids virus
By Patricia Lima and Víctor Hugo Duran
Chemistry
Body with more gas
Compounds containing ruthenium could serve as a basis for future medications
Geology
The weather guardians
Caves reveal the climate of the southern hemisphere for the last 100,000 years
Forestry engineering
Finite stock in the Amazon
Two species of tree take more than a century to grow
Physics
Trick of the eye
Equations explain the localization of objects that seem to come from nowhere
Biotechnology
Cleaning crew
Fungi and bacteria form the basis of detergents used in hospital equipment