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Roberto Santos Junior: The limits of an Amazonian dream

Despite causing major damage, the Trans-Amazonian Highway fostered the formation of small farming communities

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Marilda Sotomayor: A game thinker

Brazilian mathematician who worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists became a leading specialist in the highly applicable theory of matching markets

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Renato Janine Ribeiro: There is no development without science

The new president of SBPC says Brazil lacks an awareness of the influence of research on economic and social prosperity

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Carlos Alfredo Joly: It’s time to focus on biodiversity

Botanist who created the Biota program states that defending the preservation of biological wealth is key to fighting climate change

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Soraya Smaili: Bringing science closer to society

Soraya Smaili, a former dean at UNIFESP, discusses the goals of a new think tank devoted to developing policy proposals for higher education and science funding

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A visionary of modernity

Aracy Amaral talks about Brazilian modernism

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Sérgio Pena: Under the skin

The Minas Gerais geneticist proves that, at the cellular level, Brazilians look the same

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Benjamin A. Cowan: Brazil and the new right

North American historian launches book about religious conservatism in the 20th century

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Edilson Osorio: A Brazilian startup in Estonia

A São Paulo entrepreneur expands into the Baltic nation and leads the digital governance sector

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Néstor García Canclini: An anthropologist of the contemporary

A Brazilian intellectual produces pioneering analyses of the paradoxes of Latin American modernity

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Linamara Rizzo Battistella: In defense of movement

The physician who helped establish Brazil's policy on the rights of people with disabilities now fights to rehabilitate Covid-19 patients

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Ivair Gontijo: On Martian time

A Brazilian engineer is one of those responsible for monitoring NASA's robotic jeep Perseverance, as it searches for traces of life on Earth's closest neighbor

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Luiz Bevilacqua: Bridges to interdisciplinarity

The scientist behind COPPE and the educational model used at the Federal University of ABC shares how the development of engineering research has impacted Brazil

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Gabriel Liguori: A bioartificial heart on the horizon

The creator of bioengineering startup TissueLabs discusses how he has sought to overcome the challenges involved in the construction of human tissues and organs with 3D printers

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Jurandyr Ross: The three Brazils

The São Paulo geographer proposes an overview of the country’s different environmental, social, and economic realities

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Eurico Arruda: Admirer of viruses

Coronavirus specialist and USP physician speaks about the new variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the risk they represent in the efficacy of some vaccines

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Dimas Covas: The trajectory of Butantan

The hematologist from USP readies the São Paulo institute to fight the pandemic and has plans to transform it into one of the world’s top producers of vaccines and serums

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Gustavo Turecki: Detective of the mind

Born in Argentina and educated in Brazil, a dedicated psychiatrist investigates the causes of suicide

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Silvio Meira: A hopeful realist

Creator of one of the most important ecosystems of innovation in the country, the computer scientist discusses the emergence of the digital era in Brazil

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Recognized effort

The director of the International Center for Theoretical Physics at UNESP receives award for his leadership role in Latin American physics research

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Lourdes Sola: The transitions of democracy

A pioneer in Brazilian political science, the researcher speaks on the relationship between politics and economics

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Naomar Monteiro de Almeida Filho: Diseases as complex objects

Epidemiologist warns that the pandemic cannot be described solely through the virus or the infection caused by it

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Radovan Borojevic: The tamer of cells

The Croatian-born biologist and UFRJ professor emeritus speaks of the obstacles and encouraging perspectives for regenerative medicine

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Yvonne Maggie: An anthropologist of Afro-Brazilian religions

A researcher of race relations and education, this professor emeritus of UFRJ has been teaching and researching with the institution for over 50 years

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Luiz Davidovich: Towards a more interactive education

President of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and professor at the UFRJ Physics Institute questions compartmentalization at universities

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A builder of startups

Computer scientist Nivio Ziviani, from Minas Gerais, has founded five startups and sold one to Google

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Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão: The physicist who would not bend

Almost a year after being dismissed, the former director of INPE continues to warn that deforestation is out of control in the Amazon

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Cristiana Toscano: An unprecedented global effort

According to the only Brazilian member of a WHO vaccine committee, we are experiencing unprecedented worldwide collaboration to develop a vaccine in record time

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Silviano Santiago: The cosmopolitan literary

The critic, novelist, and poet pioneered transdisciplinary and postcolonial analyses of Brazilian literature

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Carlos Guerra Schrago: The theory and practice of evolution

The discipline that seeks to reconstruct the histories of species is itself evolving, according to UFRJ biologist

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