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Food

Nutrition as a defense

Products are based on the relationship between nutrients and immunology

Astronomical instrumentation

A vision of space

INPE researchers build a telescope to capture x-rays and cosmic gamma rays

Retrospect

One man, one conviction

Alberto Carvalho da Silva died aged 85 years believing in the strengthening of S&T for the development of the country

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Cover

The solution that saves

A solution rich in salt lessens lesions from hemorrhagic shock

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Chance and success

Chance and success

Phytotherapy

Beating naturally

Compound of medicinal plants stops arrhythmia

Genetics

Virus-based medicines

Production of vectors makes gene therapy advance

Epidemiology

State of alert

More aggressive subtypes of Aids virus advance in Brazil

BIOLOGY

Penta, the champion clone

Researchers from Unesp make a copy of an adult animal

paleontology

Torturous routes

Hominid fossil suggests that our historical evolution is more complex

speleology

Technology in caving

Visits to the Bonito region with the minimal of environmental impact

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cosmology

Taming black holes

Experiment can help to review the basic laws of the universe

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astrophysics

Sidereal clock

Physicist shows how to use the brightness from pulsating white dwarf stars

Muniz Sodré

Muniz Sodré: The way of life of the media

The way of life of the media

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political science

Made the headlines? It’s going to happen, then

How the press influenced the contest between Maluf and Marta Suplicy

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Education

Very easygoing teachers

USP project uses escargots to teach children school disciplines

Divulgation

Converting Science&Technology into news

Ciência Hoje magazines completes 20 years of uninterrupted publication

Book

Benefit rewarded

Works that received FAPESP's support win 2002 Jabuti Award

development

X-ray of São Paulo agriculture

Research and new technologies have increased productivity

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investment

Science in Iberian America

Brazil to lead the first thematic network of the RICYT

human resources

IPT renews staff

Institute will do a public examination to fill vacancies

advanced internet

Program encourages cooperative production

Tidia is going to carry out projects like those on network technology

innovation

In search of the lost time

Anpei brings experts together to get to know investment strategies in R&D

FAPESP'S new President

A commitment with innovation

Carlos Vogt is going to preserve resources destined towards scholarships

engineering

Land of innovation

New applications in steel making and electrical products

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odontology

No fear of the drill

Diamond coated drills reduce the use of anesthetics in 70% of the cases

Agriculture

Natural combat on cultivated land

Fungi that are predators of worms can be mass produced

environmental engineering

Impurities Exterminator

Ozone generator born of partnership between a company and an ITA laboratory

Chemical engineering

Compatible with the body

Laboratory at UFMG synthesizes new generation of biomaterials

Biotechnology

Genetic therapy for hens

Unicamp researchers discover protein for fighting bird disease

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