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Textile engineering
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Functional fabrics
Santista launches products for workwear with nanotechnological properties
Genetics
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Secrets of Nobility
Biologists try to understand how the genes act in order to differentiate bees
Interview
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Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro: Violence without limits
A UN study coordinated by a Brazilian sociologist reveals that children are the victims of mistreatment and aggression throughout the world, at all classes and environments, whilst society accepts the phenomenon with complacency
Cover
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The pathways of change
Countries are preparing themselves to confront global warming scenarios
By Fabrício Marques and Claudia Izique
Diffusion
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Within the reach of all
Free access to scientific articles changes the strategy of publishing houses
Biomedical Engineering
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Light and image
System allows to carry out several skin examinations in a single place
Global warming
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Al Gore’s crusade
A film uses marketing to convert skeptics to the defense of the environment
Retrospect
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Atoms for peace
Ipen completes 50 years with good services rendered by means of nuclear power
Theory
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The forbidden city
Researchers try to gather the physics of the infinitely small to the large
Experimental physics
Foot on the accelerator
Participation in future CERN experiments should benefit industry
Interview
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Cylon Gonçalves: Physicist, politician, executive
Physicist Cylon Gonçalves talks about his experience at university, in government and in private enterprise, and about the difficulties in producing innovation
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Less stress and more poetry
Less stress and more poetry
Diplomacy
The Bones of the Baron
External politics is today a reason for heated and serious discussion
By Carlos Haag
History
A tropical Lady Macbeth
Letters from Dona Leopoldina reveal a political organizer who hated democracy
By Carlos Haag
Sociology
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The exorcism of the Internet
Psychologists and lawyers advocate moderation in criticisms of the web