Highlights
Cover
Electronic political platform
Contrary to myth, free advertising time works and helps voters
By Carlos Haag
Planning
The USP of the future
USP discusses strategies to maintain excellence in its 100th anniversary
Medical drugs
Creative copies
Molecules that simulate others facilitate the search for original products
Meteorology
Lightning in the pampas
Positive rays of lightning are five times more frequently in Rio Grande do Sul
Petroleum Industry
Marine challenges
Exploiting oil creates demand for knowledge and technology
Chemistry
Difficult decomposition
Oxybiodegradable plastics do not decompose in the wild as expected
Conservation
Preservation made to order
Sensor monitors corrosion process in churches and works of art