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Pragmatic science

The first state laboratory for chemical analyses was established 200 years ago

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At the infection front

Rocha Lima discovered the origin of exanthematic typhus, 95 years ago

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Sailing on familiar seas

Colonial Brazil produced in the 17th century the galleon Padre Eterno

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Among the birds in the forest

The ornithologist Emilia Snethlage undertook pioneering research in the Amazon region at the start of the twentieth century

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The observer of cities

In 2,400 photos, Frederick Hoehne reveals a keen eye in the early twentieth century

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Algebraic obsessions

Two hundred years ago Évariste Galois, the creator of group theory and a tragic character in the history of science, was born

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Mapping the New World

Astronomers determined latitudes in the Amazon and wrote about the region

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A single land

Reinhard Maack found evidence of the origin of continents in Brazil 85 years ago

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(Almost) forgotten knowledge

Study brings back a centuries-old technique to build in stone

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Chagas

Physician discovered the full cycle of the disease named after him

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Records of a comet

Mathematician wrote about Halley's passage across Brazil 252 years ago

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Poison against poison

One hundred years ago, Vital Brazil published "A defesa contra o ofidismo"

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Gonçalves Dias, ethnographer

Gonçalves Dias wrote about and collected material on Brazil's indigenous people

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Getting acquainted with the sea

The first Brazilian oceanography expedition took place 60 years ago

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The rooftop telescope

George Marcgrave was born four hundred years ago

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Responses to time

The Emílio Ribas Infectious Diseases Institute was set up 130 years ago

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“Savages” in the museum

A group of Indians was put on display in the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition

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The early days of steel-mills

Poor technical know-how made it difficult to set up a new industry in Brazil

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The botanist who wrote books at Court

Books were written 210 years ago about the problems of Brazil as a colony

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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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