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Electrical engineering
Genius innovations
Private technology institute generates products and sets up in Campinas
Materials Science
Rubber medicine
Material with latex closes ulcers and rebuilds the esophagus and the eardrum
mechanical Engineering
Expanded image
National technology lowers production costs of special lenses
Software
Digital scissors
Software generated at UFPE wins market and prevents losses in the paper industry
Steel Making
Lucrative marriage
A partnership between the university and CSN has brought in US$ 85 million
Nanotechnology
Atoms for doing calculations
Brazilian physicists in the worldwide race in search of the quantum computer
physiology
Short of breath
Researchers calculate the capacity of sedentary carrying out physical activity
Genetics
The glass and lipstick
Alteration in a gene may make women 2.6 times more susceptible to alcoholism
archeology
The land of Luzia
Map covers 100 prehistoric sites from the Lagoa Santa region of Minas Gerais
Epidemiology
The pressure of modern life
Urbanization upsets health of the inhabitants of the interior of the Amazonia
Retrospect
Comfort from the air
A hundred years old, the air conditioning system was invented by a 25-year old engineer, in New York
Cover
Shadows over the forest
Clouds of smoke from forest clearing fires cool down the Amazon forest
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On fire, shadows, cold and lights
On fire, shadows, cold and lights
environment
Protection for biodiversity
Biota-Pará Project draws up list of species threatened with extinction