Highlights

Psychobiology

Sleep and exercise

Sleep deprivation can cause various alterations in the organism

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Biotechnology

The controversy over transgenics

Researchers study how transgenics are received by the consumer

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Bachia oxyrhina

This is not a snake

Long and with no visible legs, the lizard is confused with snake

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Nutrition

Fortified water

Iron and vitamin C in drinking water may help fight child anemia

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Mental Health

Looking after mental health

Psychosocial Support Centers are concentrated in the richest areas of Brazil

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leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis in our cities

Protozoan that causes the disease was detected in dogs that lives in Sao Paulo

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Sphagesaurus montealtensis

Butchers from the past

Ancestor of crocodiles, reptile ate meat and also vegetables

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climate change

More floods in 2100

A model reproduces the rise to the level of the sea of Santos and São Vicente

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Nanotechnology

Reinforced rubber

Company creates nanostructured material for application in industry

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bioenergy

Less waste

Catalysts can make biodiesel production more efficient and cleaner

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Bioenergy

Diesel from sugar cane

Fuel to be produced by genetic transformations in yeast

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SEMICONDUCTORS

Memory of the future

A ceramics center will develop raw materials for a new chip factory

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Physics

Welcome impurities

Simulations explain how nanotubes detect toxic gases in low concentrations

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Environment

Islands in the forest

Stretches of the Atlantic rainforest are home to fewer species of animals

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IMMUNOLOGY

Death swarm

Brazilian group obtains the first serum against bee poison

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