Highlights

Health

Loss saving

Stomach reduction surgery, apparently, protects us from cancer

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Media

The story of those who tell the story

Brazilian press bicentennial calls for broad reflection

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Memory

The price of old science

Rare scientific books go for millions of dollars in US auction

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Interview

João Paulo dos Reis Velloso: A new world in the Tropics?

An economist believes that Brazil can become number one among emerging countries

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Cover

Paths for advancement as ethanol leader

FAPESP launches program to drive research in bioenergy

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Development

Engineers sought

Engineers propose doubling the number of professionals to help Brazil grow

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Biochemistry

Green petrochemicals

Glycerin will be used polypropylene production

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Photochemistry

Close connection

Interaction between light and polymers speeds up different processes

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Medicine

Bathed in light

Electronic device monitors radiation dose used to treat physiologic jaundice

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Cartography

More accurate maps

New radar provides more exact topographical data

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Memory

Help from the past

Four small hydroelectric power plants are generating electricity again

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Newton da Costa

Newton da Costa: Passion and contradiction

The mathematician who created paraconsistent logic has three books republished

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Cover

An essential protein

Team explains the functioning of the healthy form of prion

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Justice

Freedom to advance

Supreme Court officially supports the Brazilian strain of embryo stem cells

Sociology

The drunkenness of discovery

Why scientists derive so much satisfaction from their work

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