Highlights
Retrospect
The aeronautics pioneer
120 years ago Júlio César Ribeiro de Souza discovered how to steer balloons
Interview
Guilherme Ary Plonski: Strategic change
To create dynamism, this is the principal mission of the new director of the IPT
Pablo Rubén Mariconda
Pablo Rubén Mariconda: Perennial unconformity
Pablo Rubén Mariconda: Perennial unconformity
By Mariluce Moura and Neldson Marcolin
Electronic engineering
Image and sound direct from space
Proqualit develops, in the country, equipment for paid TV via satellite
biomedical engineering
A diagnosis on the surface of the skin
A system allows an early detection of skin cancer
Naval Engineering
More crude oil on the high seas
Two projects assist Petrobras to comply with its goals in deep waters
Epidemiology
The little villains of leishmaniosis
Wild rats are the hosts for the microbes of this tropical disease
Medicine
The lines of treatment
Studies don't dispense the use of corticoid inhalants, except in mild cases
Genomics
Safer biotechnology
Genetic modification technique enables GM products with less environmental risk
environment
Accurate Vision
Method lowers the cost of mapping and classifying vegetation in the Pantanal