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Interview

José Fernando Perez: A route of opening up to society

A route of opening up to society

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Cover

Fragilities exposed

Psychiatric disorders are frequent and get little treatment

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Archeology

Rediscovering the New World

Prehistoric human bones suggest that the first Americans were not Mongoloids

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Genetics

The redemption of the botocudos

Studies reveal descendents of disappeared Indians

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Physics

Friendly chaos

Apparently disorganized behaviors may benefit living beings

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History

Knowledge in vogue

An exhibit of scientific instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries

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Culture

More notable than small

A study analyzes the trajectory of Carmen Miranda in Brazil and the US

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Urbanism

Indian Program

A book traces the trajectory of the Rio de Janeiro shoreline

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Innovation

Guarantee of origin

In one year, Unicamp closes contracts with companies for 26 patents

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Civil engineering

Economy with water taps

Rainwater serves to water plants and wash cars

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Ophthalmology

Precision in sight

Equipment allows rigorous examinations on the curvature of the cornea

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New materials

Small solutions

Nanotechnology and photonics are the basis of sensors

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Interview

Ismail Xavier: Visions on stage

The critic and professor analyzes the dialog between the Brazilian cinema and the Nelson Rodrigues theater

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History of art

The Gothic in the tropics

A pioneering study in Brazil analyzes the work of the German xylographist Dürer that is stored in Rio de Janeiro

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Scenic Arts

Dario Fo

A study, now transformed into a book, shows how the Italian dramatist guarantees the perenniality of the political theater

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Anthropology

The album of the patriarchal family

Thesis brings together the conflicting visions of Nelson Rodrigues and Gilberto Freyre on the Brazilians' household upbringing

Popular culture

Villa Lobos’s backwoods trunk

Researcher organizes collection of tunes, ballads, poems and parodies that were in the composer's collection

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Materials Science

Rubber medicine

Material made from the latex of the rubber tree closes ulcers and rebuilds the esophagus and the eardrum

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Biotechnology

Hormone on the market

Small company teams up with Brazilian pharmaceutical industry to produce a medicine against dwarfism

Chemistry

Cachaça without any mystery

Compared with whiskies, the Brazilian drink has fewer aldehydes, substances that are responsible for hangovers

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Materials engineering

Extra toughness in the air

Unprecedented product gives more resistance to the wingtip lights of Embraer's aircraft

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Steel Making

Lucrative marriage

A fourteen-year partnership between the university and the company CSN has brought in some US$ 85 million for the company

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Software

The computer’s voice

Linguists and engineers from Unicamp formulate a speech system with a Brazilian accent

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Oceanography

Oasis in danger

The repopulation of the coral reefs threatened by excessive fishing

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ethology

Monkeys that almost speak

The woolly spider monkeys have a singular form of communication

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Ecology

Shadows over the forest

Clouds of smoke from forest clearing fires cool down the Amazon forest

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Botany

Long life for pernambuco wood

Seeds of the plant are preserved for six times more than used to be thought

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Biochemistry

Pitomba versus pests

Protein extracted from the fruit eliminates fungi and borers

Physics

The genesis of DNA

Mathematical model describes what made life possible on Earth

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Paleontology

Under the palm trees

The discovery of a deposit of dinosaur fossils in the interior of Maranhão

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