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Materials Engineering
In the mouth of the furnace, new steelworks
New materials improve the efficiency of steel making sector
Nuclear energy
Bacteria detector
In Rio, within two hours a laboratory identifies pathogenic micro organisms
Meteorology
Detailed weather forecasts
Inpe develops an advanced model of weather forecasting with high resolution
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Closing in on hypertension
Closing in on hypertension
foreign
Effects of September 11
Redoubled security in the USA because of terror affects research in Brazil
electronic library
Changes under way
Capes incorporates ProBE and FAPESP studies alterations to the program
research
Technology and the trade balance
Research analyses imports and exports of technology services
ethics
A sensitive question
Scientific publications look for ways of dealing with conflicts of interest
Retrospect
The aeronautics pioneer
120 years ago Júlio César Ribeiro de Souza discovered how to steer balloons
Interview
Willi Bolle: Guimarães Rosa – Portrait of the soul of Brazil
Eduardo CesarDeeply involved in developing the text of his project, which will provide an original view of Grande Sertão: Veredas (The Great Backcountry: Byways), by Guimarães Rosa, relating to the portraits of Brazil, professor Willi Bolle tells the Pesquisa FAPESP some of the story of his life and his studies, which have led him to hide out... View Article
Neurology
Defect in production
Study detects chromosomal variation far higher than expected in neurons
public health
Fewer deaths from the air
Drop atmospheric pollution rate improves public health in metropolises
astrophysics
Where can life be?
The evolution of the Milky Way and formation of the terrestrial planets
physics
The proton in transformation
A study demonstrates how an accelerated particle can originate others
Interview
Guilherme Ary Plonski: Strategic change
To create dynamism, this is the principal mission of the new director of the IPT
Pablo Rubén Mariconda
Pablo Rubén Mariconda: Perennial unconformity
Pablo Rubén Mariconda: Perennial unconformity
By Mariluce Moura and Neldson Marcolin
Electronic engineering
Image and sound direct from space
Proqualit develops, in the country, equipment for paid TV via satellite
biomedical engineering
A diagnosis on the surface of the skin
A system allows an early detection of skin cancer
Naval Engineering
More crude oil on the high seas
Two projects assist Petrobras to comply with its goals in deep waters
Epidemiology
The little villains of leishmaniosis
Wild rats are the hosts for the microbes of this tropical disease
Medicine
The lines of treatment
Studies don't dispense the use of corticoid inhalants, except in mild cases