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Ergonomics

Perfect fit

New kind of mouse provides more comfort and prevents muscular pains

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Metallurgy

Union sealed

Alloys of titanium and steel are soldered for use in the aeronautical industry

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Theater

The theater and the invention of the star

A researcher investigates the modernization of the Brazilian stage

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Comunication

Decipher me or I’ll devour you

What is hidden behind the magazine covers and the leading pages of newspapers

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History

Far from God, close to the USA

A study by Moniz Bandeira dissects the formation of the American empire

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Retrospect

Routes of Electricity

First Brazilian hydroelectric power plant to generate power for the population was inaugurated 116 years ago

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Cover

Nanotubes on the market

Tiny carbon parts are already on sale for universities and companies

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Constructions of the present and future world

Constructions of the present and future world

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Biochemistry

Reproduction demystified

Trypanosoma cruzi core location makes it easier to combat Chaga's disease

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HEALTH

Diagnostic in the form of light

Laser helps to tell healthy tissue from the ones altered by cancer

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Biology

Virus hunters

Researchers watch for the entrance of emergent diseases

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Ecology

Vulnerable predators

Strategies to save the rays and sharks of the Brazilian coastline

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Astrophysics

The great magnet of the Milky Way

Structure pulls our galaxy in its direction

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Physics

The long wings of neurons

Quantity and efficiency of connections depends on the shape of the cells

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Interview

Bernardo Galvão: The battle against Aids and other fights

The battle against Aids and other fights

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environment

The world after Kyoto

More demands for Brazil to control its carbon dioxide emissions

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3rd Conference of ST&I

Biodiesel is ours

Brazil needs partners to maintain the leadership in renewable fuels

evaluation

The Club of excellence

Rankings show the performance of the best Brazilian universities

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management

Rector Suely

The first woman to command USP wants to strengthen undergraduate courses

pharmacy

The artemisinin therapy

A medicine against malaria will be produced in Brazil

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computing

Associated scientists

Professionals form a small company in the entrepreneurial manner

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telecommunication

Doped fiber

Optical equipment that amplifies a light signal

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Retrospect

The invisible revealing radiation

110 years ago, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays

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Cover

The masks of hysteria

Psychic disorder is presently mistaken for epilepsy

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The polysemy of resistance

The polysemy of resistance

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Neurophysiology

The impact of horror

A study gives dimension to the tension generated by violent images

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Genetics

False majesty

Genes explain the mystery of the queen bees that cannot reproduce

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Entomology

A zoological garden in the bed

Bed bugs spread through mattresses and provoke asthma and rhinitis crises

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Geology

The Earth covered with ice

Some 630 million years ago, the Amazon was a desert lying below an icecap

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Physics

In the rising of bubbles

Champagne bubbles in four distinct manners

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