Highlights

Herch Moysés Nussenzveig

Herch Moysés Nussenzveig: Beyond the rainbow

The physicist presents his project of scientific kits for children

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Cover

Unraveling the web

Attacking undesirable veins and arteries could fight cancer and blindness

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Memory

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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Human Resources

Modern mathematics

Project to take mathematics research progress into the classroom

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Economics

Riches at hand

Academics propose ways to put forest assets to better use

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recognition

A model program

Summary of the first 10 years of Biota-FAPESP published in Science

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foreign

A good time for Brazilian science

Nature highlights São Paulo's autonomy and the strength of its production

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Promotion

International dissemination

Aid for publications finances translations and encourages publishing houses

ASSESSMENT

The battle for quality

USP and Unicamp discuss how to increase the impact of their research

Biochemistry

Well-regulated insulin and glucose

Fatty acids revert inflammation that unleashes obesity and diabetes

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Biology

Autism connection

Neurons present chemical dysfunction linked to brain development

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Ecology

Good companions

Population density influences life span of termites

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Earth Science

The last piece of Gondwana

Ancient ocean that isolated the Amazon dried up 520 million years ago

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Geology

Hitching a ride in steam

Interaction of water with rocks facilitated the formation of amethysts

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Physics

Enigmatic attraction

New theory helps explain the behavior of ions diluted in water

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