Highlights

Electrical engineering

Genius innovations

Private technology institute generates products and sets up in Campinas

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Materials Science

Rubber medicine

Material with latex closes ulcers and rebuilds the esophagus and the eardrum

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mechanical Engineering

Expanded image

National technology lowers production costs of special lenses

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Software

Digital scissors

Software generated at UFPE wins market and prevents losses in the paper industry

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Steel Making

Lucrative marriage

A partnership between the university and CSN has brought in US$ 85 million

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Retrospect

Change in production

Some fifty years ago Johanna Döbereiner Began her biology search into nitrogen fixation

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Cover

Portraits of nightfall

The elderly of São Paulo were manual laborers and have little schooling

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Geology

The glaciers turned into backlands

The landscape of the future northeast of Brazil was dominated by ice

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Ecology

Tables turned

Contamination of rivers by oil threatens above all fish with aerial respiration

biochemistry

Long range vision

Discoveries on protein make agreement with multinational feasible

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biophysics

Folding molecules

Simulations make it possible to foresee the structure of proteins

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Genetics

The silence of the genes

Technique deactivates stretches of DNA and blocks production of protein in bees

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Physics

The genesis of DNA

Mathematical model describes what made life possible on Earth

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Interview

Alfredo Bosi: Poetry as a response to oppression

Recently elected to the Brazilian Academy of Literature, the professor reaffirms his belief in the power of lyricism

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Sociology

Delicate relations

Study analyzes the relashionship between Law professionals and the State