Highlights

Development

Recognized merit

The CNPq selects 34 projects for the Millennium Institutes program

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Legislation

Waiting for results

The regulations decree puts into effect the Innovation Law

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Nomenclature

Coveted organization chart

Conflicting interests spice up the reform in the Table of Knowledge Areas

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Publications

The polemic article

Magazine cancelled the work of the Brazilians concerning Chagas' disease

Disclosure

Beasts of the Pampas (praires)

Artists reconstruct the pre-historical fauna that inhabited Rio Grande do Sul

Cover

The masks of hysteria

Psychic disorder is presently mistaken for epilepsy

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Neurophysiology

The impact of horror

A study gives dimension to the tension generated by violent images

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Genetics

False majesty

Genes explain the mystery of the queen bees that cannot reproduce

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Entomology

A zoological garden in the bed

Bed bugs spread through mattresses and provoke asthma and rhinitis crises

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Geology

The Earth covered with ice

Some 630 million years ago, the Amazon was a desert lying below an icecap

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Physics

In the rising of bubbles

Champagne bubbles in four distinct manners

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Molecular biology

A factory of mice

Transgenic rodents produce the protein responsible for blood coagulation

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Artificial joints

Guaranteed Balance

A new treatment for prostheses results in less wear and tear

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Chemistry

Sparkling whiteness

Partnership makes the production of a new pigment for the paints possible

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New Materials

Plastic from the buriti palm

A mix produces a material capable of absorbing and emitting light

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