Highlights

Evolution

Around the world

Biologists try to explain how and when human beings appeared

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Neuroscience

Way beyond Cyborg

Robotic prosthesis are closer to reality

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Chemistry

The man who uncooked the egg

Researcher wants to change the way humans cook their meals

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New materials

Renewable plastic

Firms use ethanol to make substitutes for oil products

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Microbiology

Good bacteria

Enzymes degrade proteins and PET bottles and may have new industrial uses

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Biofuel

Protein in oil

Researchers from USP use lipasis and ethanol in the production of biodiesel

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Chemical Engineering

Less waste

Discarded copper and nickel from metal plating parts are recovered

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Anthropology

Those who don’t know how to dance improvise

Hip-hop offers social existence to youngsters in poor suburbs

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History

From the whale’s belly into the fire

In eighteenth century, a priest from Bahia wished to unite Jews and Christians

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Sociology

Abortion and the origin of crime

Link between interrupted pregnancies and criminality is denied by academics

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Opinion

James Watson and the four new Horsemen of the Apocalypse

James Watson and the four new Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Nobel

Scientists’ peace

IPCC shares the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore

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Nobel

Main author

Brazil-based physicist co-authored experiments that earned a Frenchman a Nobel

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Prize

2007 IgNobel winners

2007 IgNobel winners

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Nobel

Knowledge in our daily lives

Among the 2007 prize winners there is research of great practical application