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Development
A north star for the state of Amazonas
State sets up a state wide system of science and technology
Electronic engineering
Constant innovation
Electronic voting machines with a digital identifier start being used
Eletronic Engineering
Digital recognition
System developed by Griaule is amongst the best in the world
Forest Engineering
Fortified eucalyptus
Partnership obtains wood that may result in better quality paper
Textile engineering
Functional fabrics
Santista launches products for workwear with nanotechnological properties
Retrospect
Atoms for peace
Ipen completes 50 years with good services rendered by means of nuclear power
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Less stress and more poetry
Less stress and more poetry
Theory
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
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
Diplomacy
The Bones of the Baron
External politics is today a reason for heated and serious discussion
By Carlos Haag
Diffusion
Within the reach of all
Free access to scientific articles changes the strategy of publishing houses
Global warming
Al Gore’s crusade
A film uses marketing to convert skeptics to the defense of the environment
Biomedical Engineering
Light and image
System allows to carry out several skin examinations in a single place
History
A tropical Lady Macbeth
Letters from Dona Leopoldina reveal a political organizer who hated democracy
By Carlos Haag