Highlights

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From the edge of the forest

Reduction in rainfall reduces Amazon's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide

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Energy

Artificial photosynthesis

New low cost solar cells reproduce the plant process for transforming sunlight

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Chemistry

Versatile and clean thread

Company creates a new process to manufacture acrylic fibers

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Odontology

White smile

Less fluoride and a low pH reduces the incidence of fluorosis in children

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Diplomacy

The day on which Brazil said “no” to the United States

Documents with the proposal to deport black Americans to the Amazon

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Archeology

Made in USA: trafficking

The search for one of the many American slave ships that came to Brazil

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Sociology

The wheel of life

Capoeira master mixes Bahian martial art and globalization in New York

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Retrospect

Film showing

The first known science fiction film was made 107 years ago

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Maria Immacolata V. de Lopes

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes: TV soap opera, the Brazilian narrative

Professor examines why the soap opera is a favorite folktale

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The mysteries of smells

Brazilian researcher helps unravel the bases of the sense of smell

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Innovation

Pioneering efforts

International report acknowledges the work done by the Inova Unicamp

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Astrophysics

The sky is the limit

Brazilian wins award granted by the President of the USA

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Deforestation

Brazil’s targets

The government set limits to control the devastation in the Amazon

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Pharmacology

Unexpected action from a distance

Neurons can transport painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs

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Health

On river banks

Capivaras and dogs disseminate São Paulo fever in Brazil

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