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ZOOTECHNY

Horses with stress

Horses with stress

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PEDIATRICS

Regional obesity

Regional obesity

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ZOOLOGY

New snake

New snake

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POULTRY RAISING

Contaminated chickens

Contaminated chickens

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SciELO

A visible success

A visible success

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Geology

Ten tremors a day

Study reveals intense movement of the crust in the central region of Brazil

biodiversity

New seafood

Biologists discover 52 species of animals that live on the bottom of the ocean

Paleobotany

When pine trees were dwarfs

Fossils of old araucarias attest to the transition of this species

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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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pharmacology

Pressure under control

Molecule that fight hypertension is removed from the brains of rats

Medicine

Modulated defense

Advances against leishmaniasis involve controlling the immune response

Retrospect

A very small universe

70 years ago, Ernst Ruska created the electron microscope in Germany

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Cover

Attack against Panic

Neurotransmitters help to understand and to treat psychic disorders

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Letter from the editor | 84

Brazilian science on the screen

Brazilian science on the screen

Interview

Nuno Pires de Carvalho: In defense of biodiversity

Wipo adopts the term biosquatting for acts of appropriation of traditional knowledge

Popular culture

Villa Lobos’s backwoods trunk

Researcher organizes collection of Villa-Lobos' collection

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Music

The return of Gomes’s wicked woman

Joanna de Flandres is recovered in two projects

Sociology

The pen that beats the sword

Thesis shows the power of discourse for criminalizing social movements

Scenic Arts

Dario Fo

A study shows how Dario Fo guarantees the perenniality of the political theater

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genetic resources

Fruit of contention

Japanese company registers patents process for producing "cupulate"

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funding

Investments in the forest

The Bank of Amazonia invests into research for expanding the regional market

scientific magazines

Free access at no charge

Scientists found virtual publishing house and plan to launch electronic titles

Robotics

Intelligence and pilotless

An autonomous airship is under development at the CenPRA

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Computing

Company of talents

A new system builds software adapted to each customer

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sanitation

Cleansing reactors

New equipments are prepared for the treatment of effluents

veterinary medicine

Thick shell

Vaccine protects birds from bacteria that causes fragility in their eggs

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Forest engineering

Rapid and economic drying

Researcher from Embrapa develops method for treating wood

Retrospect

Life in the shape of a corkscrew

50 years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA

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Cover

The poverty map

Project indicates a worsening in the quality of life in districts of São Paulo

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Letter from the editor | 83

Harsh indicators, urgent actions

Harsh indicators, urgent actions