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Science in colonial Brazil

Naturalists have been better acquainted with the Brazil's natural resources

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Evil upon the Earth

Modern seismology resulted from the big 1755 earthquake that destroyed Lisbon

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Glitter from the past

USP's Biosciences Institute to release catalog of rare works of 18 and 19 century

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The plagues

Microbiology Museum opens Great epidemics, a traveling exhibition

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Space enigmas

A century ago, research on cosmic rays began

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At the top of the mountain range

Biological reserve reaches its 100th anniversary with a book

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Going strong at 100

The Brazilian scientific journal with the greatest impact

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Hans Staden, the naturalist

Author of classic work on Brazil was the first to describe stingless bees 452 years ago

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One more attempt

Existing drugs could be the weapon against the Trypanosoma cruzi

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Chagas

100 years ago, a Brazilian physician discovered the full cycle of Chagas Disease

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From Moon to Earth

Program that took man to Earth's satellite 40 years ago created technology for society in several fields

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Rare books on the web

Projeto Brasiliana Digital project makes antique books from the Mindlin Library available on the internet

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The feats of a flying priest

Gusmão proved that an object heavier than air could fly 300 years ago

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Secrets from the heart

A book that explained blood circulation is published in a trilingual edition

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Divide and rule

Sixty-seven years ago Brazil adopted a regional division proposed by geographer Fábio Guimarães

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On their own skin

106 years ago, Emilio Ribas and Adolpho Lutz proved that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes

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Pages from time past

Inmet assembles 12 million documents of the oldest meteorological records in Brazil

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Film showing

The first known science fiction film was made 107 years ago

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The gears of life

The first machines in Brazil to replace heart and lung systems appeared in the 1950's

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Advance under the sea

Forty years ago the P-1 was built, the first moveable Brazilian oil drilling rig

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Chasing the barber bug (T. cruzi)

Emmanuel Dias prepared the earliest campaigns to eradicate Chagas Disease in Brazil

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The control of electronics

Sixty years ago, Bell Labs introduced the transistor

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Parallel paths

Some 175 years ago Hercule Florence, who lived in up-state.

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The price of old science

Rare scientific books go for millions of dollars in US auction

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Help from the past

Four small hydroelectric power plants are generating electricity again

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Sickness caused by love and longing

A pioneering L.P. of colonial and imperial modinhas to be relaunched after 40 years

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Fungus in the air

Adolpho Lutz published two articles describing a new disease, 100 years ago

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Like firewater

In 1925, researchers tested 70% alcohol in internal combustion engines

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Rigor and generosity

Simão Mathias was the first student to get a doctorate from the University of São Paulo's School of Philosophy, in 1942

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In earth as in heaven

Christian festivals and calendar are based on astronomy

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