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Electrical engineering

Linked to the wiring

Small company innovates and produces current and magnetic field meters

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Civil Engineering

Rubber in the safety barrier

Barriers produced with pieces of tires reduce impact in traffic accidents

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Retrospect

New life in Bahia

The first agricultural school in Latin America should become a university

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Cover

Genetic Crossroads

The low DNA diversity is challenging the preservation of the sloth

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Evolutionary processes

Evolutionary processes

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Medicine

Salt in excess

Goiter has ended. Now the problem is an exaggerated consumption of iodine

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Biochemistry

Sugar for diabetics

Component of the wall of a grass facilitates the absorption of glucose

Astrophysics

The Jewels of Saturn

Images from the probe confirm the theory that explains errors in the rings

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Genetics

Tolerance to the cocktail

In SP, one third of infected with HIV show resistance to the anti-Aids drugs

Ecology

Night in the arid outback

Botanists throw light on the peculiarities of pollination in the Caatinga

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Geophysics

Tsunami – Effect at a distance

Energy released by the Asian earthquake may well set off other tremors

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Interview

Diógenes de Almeida Campos: Official stones and bones

Paleontologist affirms that Brazil could be as important as China and criticizes fossil contraband

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History

Annoying neighborliness

Study compares the histories and rivalries of Brazil and Argentina

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Cinema

In the darkness of cinematography

Brazilian film industry was always trailing behind the foreign ones

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Literature

Reading was a sensation

Brazil once had a large publishing market that sold millions of copies

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Environment

A climate of uncertainty

The Kyoto Protocol comes into force some eight years behind schedule

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Financing

Sponsoring excellence

Impa widens its commitments and creates chairs paid for by businessmen

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Entrepreneurial Companies

Initial Capital

Twenty PIPE companies prepare to take their projects to the market

Meteorology

Inside the rain clouds

A new system is going to forecast rain with up to three hours of anticipation

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Innovation

Rewarding effort

Companies that innovate and differentiate their products export more

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Geology

Portrait from the past

Studies help in discovering minerals

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Geochronology

The ages of the earth

A network is going to spur study on the dating of rocks and finding oil fields

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Speech Therapy

Precision hearing

Equipment for hearing tests gains a more efficient calibration system

Environment

The price of deforestation

Inventory ranks Brazil amongst the largest polluters in the world

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Partnership

Incentive for innovation

Minister Eduardo Campos foresees greater investment in 2005

Computerization

Electronic processes

SAGe brings agility to the requests for scholarships and grants for research

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Support

The challenge to dare

International commission assesses the ten Cepids

Biothecnology

Signs of vigor

Achievements and partnerships highlight the Brazilian advances

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Retrospect

At last, in print

After decades of attempts, the first volumes of the complete work of Adolpho Lutz are launched

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The power, luminous or somber, of the imagination

The power, luminous or somber, of the imagination

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