Highlights

Geology

The weather guardians

Caves reveal the climate of the southern hemisphere for the last 100,000 years

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Physics

Trick of the eye

Equations explain the localization of objects that seem to come from nowhere

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Chanel No. 5

Rosewood perfume No.5 Brazil

Leaves from the Amazonian tree guarantees its production

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Forestry engineering

Finite stock in the Amazon

Two species of tree take more than a century to grow

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Cattle ranching

Better management, more profit

Project rehabilitates small rural producers

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Biotechnology

Cleaning crew

Fungi and bacteria form the basis of detergents used in hospital equipment

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Electrical Engineering

Digital farming

Company develops precision equipment for use in agriculture

New Materials

A different type of magnet

Graphite developed by a research team has magnetic properties

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Anthropology

In the name of God

Project rescues the true relationship between missionaries and Native Indians

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Economy

The lobby goes up to the Presidential Palace

Studies reveal the relationship between the Powers and the pressure groups

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Music

This so-and-so samba

Academic world tries to understand the importance of Samba in the 20th century

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Cover

Transgenics

Permission to market GMOs should expand investments in biotechnology

Retrospect

Among the stars

The work of César Lattes, who died at eighty years, was fundamental for the detection of the pi meson

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Interview

Mayana Zatz: One eye on reason, the other on the heart

One eye on reason, the other on the heart

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Biosafety

Law authorizes research with stem cells and marketing of transgenics

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