Highlights

Genetics

Fleeting recollections

Mice with a genetic alteration suffer from loss of memory

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Physics

Echoes of gravity

The Brazilian gravitational wave detector begins to function

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Cover

Sertãozinho, powerhouse of innovations

Sertãozinho becomes a center of new processes for alcohol industry

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Special

100 years in the air

On the 100 year anniversary of the 14–Bis flight, Pesquisa FAPESP retraces the trajectory of Alberto Santos-Dumont, rescues little known stories and relates new details, such as the discovery of an unprecedented manuscript from the inventor of the first plane to take off, fly and land by its own means.

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Alcoholic drink

Cachaça revealed

Studies increase knowledge about the drink and contribute to its quality

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Immunotherapy

Exaggerated reaction

An innovative diagnostic kit monitors the evolution of respiratory allergy

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Pharmacology

Biotechnology hopes

A company prepares immunotherapy for cancer treatment

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Physiology

Masking drunkenness

Energy drink conceals some effects of alcoholic drinks and amplifies others

Public health

Through the wall

Viruses and bacteria propagatefreely on the frontier between US and Mexico

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Domestic accidents

Living with the danger

Few mothers know how to avoid their children suffering accident at home

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Immunology

Against ascites (abdominal dropsy)

A team presents new prospects for a vaccine against schistosomiasis

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Cosmology

The daringness of challenging Einstein

Another way of explaining the expansion of the Universe

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Astrophysics

We were nine

Solar system returns to having eight planets

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Sea

Selective fishhook

A study shows that national fishing can only grow on the qualitative level

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Retrospect

Creation in concrete

A hundred years ago, reinforced concrete began to be used in Brazil

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