Highlights
Metallurgy
Better quality
Unicamp and steel mill partnership design plasma torch to improve steel quality
Academic policy
Limits challenged
Studies compare the performance of students benefited from affirmative action
Anthropology
Motherland, feminine noun
Research questions the results of policies against the trafficking of women
By Carlos Haag
Alexandre Kalache
Alexandre Kalache: A policy for ageing well
Creator of age-friendly cities says that this issue is important for the country's development
Cover
The art of scanning clouds
Three satellites monitor the Amazon Region's controversial deforestation
Medication
Creative fever
Partnership makes discovery and the development of drugs in England easier
Dissemination
The apotheosis of the double helix
Exhibition unveils DNA, from biodiversity up to the cell's nucleus
Biotechnology
Seeds of dissent
Council of Ministers confirms the release of transgenic corn for sale
Pharmacology
Racing against time
Team identifies how a brain protein causes cellular death in Alzheimer patients