Highlights

Environmental Engineering

Back in production

Plasma-based equipment guarantees economic and environmental gains

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Music

This so-and-so samba

Academic world tries to understand how a genre was transformed into the most important one of Brazilian music in the 20th century

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Economy

The other side of fortune

Studies try to understand what makes a rich man rich

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Sociology

Has the nation hung up its soccer shoes?

In Brazil, football is something serious, seen by specialists as a paradigm of globalization

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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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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Cover

Under the palm trees

The discovery of a deposit of dinosaur fossils in the interior of Maranhão

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ecology

A warmer Earth

Increase of the temperature should redraw the profile of life on the planet

environment

A stranger in the glaciers of the south

Crab from the Arctic is the first invading marine species found in Antarctica

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Virology

Virus in the basement

Team explains how HIV hides itself from medication

Neuroimmunology

Crossed Networks

Stress affect the connections between the nervous, immune and endocrine systems

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Genomics

Minimum Difference

Genes may be responsible for the aggressiveness of some kinds of cancer

Epidemiology

Four that are worth ten

Chloroquine pills have the same effect as the traditional treatment

Agronomy

New fruit in the orange grove

Network of experimental orchards tests fruits more resistant to diseases

Astrophysics

Holes in the Cosmos

Black holes may be present in all the galaxies

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