Highlights

Interview

Fernando Birri: A constructor of utopias

A constructor of utopias

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Post-graduation

The time for dialogue

Interdisciplinary courses are growing

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Press

Good news month

Pesquisa FAPESP wins an award in journalism and debuts its new website

Meteorology

Weather forecasting

Finep is going to invest to recover the state meteorology networks

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Petrochemical industry

Amplified energy

Thematic networks are going to receive R$ 1 billion

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Telecommunications

Intelligent extension

Company telephone gains an advanced system of automation

Chemistry

Logic Gates

Researchers develop device for future molecular computers

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Materials engineering

Colored and sensitive

Films control changes in the luminosity of the environment

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Pharmacology

Powerful sand

Silica associated to a vaccine induces the organism to produce more antibodies

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Zootechnology

Mini pigs in the laboratory

Researchers can already count upon pigs for scientific experiments

Cover

My kingdom for one more point

The mystery of the elections that make a thousand speak for millions

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Economy

Wings of desire

Varig's crisis reveals precarious situation of Brazilian civil aviation

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Sociology

Self-centered macho?

Women's conquests intimidate men more and more

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Literature

Tradition without an impasse

Brazil loses a true intellectual, in the old style: João Alexandre Barbosa

genomics

Consortium against malaria

A network is going to sequence the genome of Anopheles gambiae