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aesthetics

Not meaning to

Modern artists have discovered a new form of making art

History

Journey reading

A book narrates how the Portuguese Royal Library arrived in Brazil

Internet 2

Targets rearranged

ANSP network will be used as a test bed for the Tidia projects

medicine

Field-testing for medicines

Authorization for clinical tests on Brazilians grows 10% a year

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Indicators

New figures for R&D

Private sector employs 37% of Brazilian researchers

hydrology

Waters under control

System for managing dams attracts attention of companies

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Clinical analysis

On the trail of the Trypanosome

New test detects presence of antibodies of Chagas's disease in the blood

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industry

Patents in action

FAPESP does the first licensing of a product generated in a program

chemistry

Samples of health

Study on propolis results in patenting a method for analysis

metrology

Time keeping

Atomic clocks are capable of splitting one second into billionths

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Physics

Clean atmosphere

Equipment monitors the air in the city of Vitória

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Memory

Motorless flights

Motorless flights

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Medicine

Malaria and some new diseases

São Paulo scientists make Rondonia a forward post for research with a high social impact

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Physics

Valuable impurity

Behavior of atoms might mean new applications for semiconducting materials

meteorology

The enigmas of the storms

Experiment investigates luminous phenomenon similar to lightning

Phytochemical

Alternative extraction

Study indicates new ways of using medicinal plants

Biochemistry

Pitomba versus pests

Protein extracted from the fruit eliminates fungi and borers

Genetics

Welding the DNA

Team from USP corrects genetic defects of a rare kind of cancer

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hematology

Transplant made to measure

Study shows how genetic mutations help to select donors of bone marrow

biochemistry

The danger mapped out

Studies confirm the relationship of free radicals with a series of diseases

Medicine

From obesity to diabetes

The raising of the levels of a protein explains weight gain

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Retrospect

Forty springs afterwards

The book that launched the modern environmental movement was published in 1962

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Cover

Hormone on the market

A partnership wants to produce a medicine against dwarfism

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Select club

Select club

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Interview

Leandro Konder: The discrete charm of Marxism

Leandro Konder launches a new book, A Question of Ideology, in which he reasserts his beliefs in the modernity of Marx's ideological ideas

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epistemology

Dilemmas of communication

The field of study expands debate on its object and scientific status

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Urbanism

A city for all

A kit want to help the population to understand the urban legislation

thematic

Philosophizing in Portuguese

Four major projects from USP's discuss from Aristotle to Habermas

conjuncture

Crises, virtues and opportunities

Equipment and input importation has raised the cost of research in Brazil

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indicators

Limited innovation

Purchase of machinery and equipment is main investment by companies