Highlights

SBPC

Battles never ending

The Society works to gain recognition for researchers and plays an active role in some of the great science debates in Brazil

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ASTROPHYSICS

A meteorite in Serra Pelada

Fragments of one of the largest asteroids in the solar system recovered by researchers in Amazonia

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ECOLOGY

Underwater Forest

Coral reefs at the mouth of the Amazon River may be larger, deeper, and more complex than expected

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INTERVIEW

José Goldemberg: From nuclear physics to ethanol

Researcher speaks of his major contributions to science

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ENVIRONMENT

Energy to change

Conference discusses the role of biofuels in fighting global warming

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ECOLOGY

A more varied menu

Leafcutter ants can grow and eat various species of fungi, not just one, as had been previously thought

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FUNDING

Tax Law for Cancer

Program receives more tax-exemption funds for treatment than for research into the disease

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Patent War

Patent War

Researchers locked in legal battle for property rights linked to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

Closer links with industry

UNICAMP is Brazil’s highest-ranked university for patent applications, and USP for licensing royalties

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DIFFUSION

Cartoon Science

The rising popularity of comic strips in science and research communication

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INTERVIEW

Edgar Dutra Zanotto: One eye on science, the other on industry

Engineer provides insight into how artificial intelligence will help develop novel types of glass and explains his new definition of the material

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Cover

The race for the best light

Sirius will compete with both a fourth-generation facility inaugurated in 2016 in Sweden, and another planned to begin operating in 2020 in France

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Leaping towards brilliance

Now in its final stage of construction, the latest-generation synchrotron light source could elevate the quality of Brazilian research

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Biodiversity

The mysterious death of the baobabs

Between 2005 and 2017, researchers conducted an extensive survey of the largest known baobab species

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Education

Missed education targets

70% of the goals set out by the National Education Plan for 2014–2017 were not achieved

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