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Physics

The high relief of memory

Team clarifies an essential phenomenon in computers

Fusion

Delicate relationship

More and more often scientists are making use of art in their analysis

Anthropology

In the footsteps of Macunaíma

Researchers retrace the folklore research mission through the North and Northeast

Urbanism

The new land of mist that the economy invented

Project maps out the changes in São Paulo brought about by globalization

Archive

School Memories

Project organizes a data bank to archive public policies in education

Biodiversity

Actions against biopiracy

WIPO studies how to protect cultures and genetic resources

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Report

Genomics for health

WHO predicts advances in the fight against morbid and genetic diseases

FAPs

State indicators

Foundations will take part in the National System for Information in S&T

Worker’s Health

Underdiagnosis jeopardizes public policies

Project will quantify real incidence work accidents in Piracicaba

NEW MATERIAL

Much more than simple glass

Vitreous material can be used in telescopes and artificial bones

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ENGINEERING

Tiny and notable

National Synchrotron Light Laboratory develops micro parts with wide use

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Metallurgy engineering

Controlled noise

Steel sheets and polymer form plates that absorb the vibrations of motors

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computing

Creation without limits

Software incorporates special effects into video systems

Agronomy industry

Environmental and energy gains

Project of mini mills proposes total integration around alcohol production

yeast

Wealth in the mill’s leftovers

Companies develop edible products from the residues of alcohol production

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Agronomy

Land without fire

In Pará, the stubble is ground up and becomes a fertilizer

Retrospect

Calculating machine

The invention by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal completes 360 years

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Cover

The profile of Brazilian political parties

Political parties profile is consistent

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Letter from the editor | 75

Science, politics and football

Science, politics and football

Genetics

Mutation mapped

Research points to a gene that causes serious kidney disease in children

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biology

Guinea pigs made to measure

Team consolidates the pioneering production of transgenic mice

Genomics

At the root of the lupus

Recently discovered genes help to explain autoimmune diseases

Medicine

The salt is back

Silver nitrate is used to reduce the discomfort of terminal patients

sports medicine

Players made to measure

Study shows different capacities in a football team

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pharmacology

Protected herd

Researcher makes a more efficient DNA vaccine against brucellosis

Botany

The smell of the species

Orchids from mountainous regions are differentiated by its pollinating insect

Geology

Mother Earth

Team from USP puts South America on the map of Rodinia

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astrophysics

At the mouth of a black hole

Researcher shows how matter is swallowed up by a black hole

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Interview

The pleasure of doing science

With his eyes open to the future of Physics, award-winning researcher says that the necessary social responsibility of the scientist does not obscure the playful nature of the practice of science

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Interview

Eric Goles Chacc: Brazil, a strategic partner

Currently what is the percentage of investment in S&T in Chile? In Chile during 1999 the portion of resources put into S&T was 0.6% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Today it’s 0.7%. President Ricardo Lagos has promised to get it up to 1.2% by the year 2006. To reach 1.2% means going from US$... View Article

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