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astrophysics

The cosmic rays are arriving

Dozens of detectors come into operation at the Pierre Auger Observatory

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Interview

Ronaldo Sardenberg: Strategic route to growth

Minister invests in the integration of the Science and Technology system withinthe country and in international cooperation

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Visual Arts

University museum with a national stature

USP's Contemporary Art Museum gains importance and visibility

Education

From home, by computer

Research investigates distance learning techniques

Scientific Literature

A skeptic causes polemics

Book that reassesses environmental problems arouses criticism from researchers

Homage

Brazil’s centenary roots

The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda

genetic

From Xylella to Alellyx

Researchers create a biotechnological company with Votorantim Ventures

teaching

Good Job

Californian children write letters to Brazilian scientists

intellectual property

The power of the transnationals

A study analyses 60 years of the history of patents in the chemical sector

computerization

On-line accounts

FAPESP widens the communication network with researchers

health

Combat front against tuberculosis

Network-TB brings together experts in search of tests to identify tuberculosis

Optics

A laser gun against cancer

A clinical study for the dissemination of Photo Dynamic Therapy (PDT)

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materials engineering

More competitive plastics

Partnership produces high resistance polypropylene and easy to recycle

Computing

Challenges for the future

IBM develops a chip that gives new life to the silicon chip

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Biomedical engineering

Proven efficiency

Equipment uses birds retina to test medicines with neurological action

chemistry

Less pollution

Nanocatalyst created in UFRGS eliminates aromatic compounds from petroleum

Electronic engineering

Innovative technical assistance

Equipment speedily detects problems and repairs modules in switching centers

engineering

Organic with a green seal

Laboratory prepare certification of foods produced without use of chemicals

environment

An island’s lost ice

Map shows shrinking glaciers on King George Island

astrophysics

Pulsating Sun

Variation in the diameter of the sun is smaler than used to be believed

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personality

A complete physicist

Dead at 96, Bernhard Gross coupled theory and practice with rare brilliance

Cattle

A sure shot

Vaccine ensures that only animals infected with disease be slaughtered

Genomics

The map of the paper tree

New eucalyptus genes drives the search for increased productivity

Medicine

The vaccine that protects the heart

Ambitious project begins to combat rheumatic fever

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Retrospect

Chemical messengers

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a star of world medicine, a pioneer in the important areas of the physiology of the heart, the nervous system and the digestive system. He had enormous influence on the development of behavioral theories and psychology, by carrying out his famous... View Article

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Cover

Malaria and some new diseases

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

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Letter from the editor | 73

A step that shows maturity

A step that shows maturity

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Interview

Carlos Alfredo Joly and Vanderlei Perez Canhos:In favor of the environment

Amongst 142 countries, Brazil achieved a prominent position in the recently announced Environmental Sustainability Index. But the coordinators of FAPESP's Biota program warn: there is still plenty of room to be conquered in the international scena

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Visual Arts

Movement in bronze

Research analyses the sculpture collection of Edgar Degas

History

History made of paper

Projects throw light on the documents guarded in the Deops/SP from 1940 to 1983