Highlights

Memory

Motorless flights

Motorless flights

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Medicine

Malaria and some new diseases

São Paulo scientists make Rondonia a forward post for research with a high social impact

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Physics

Valuable impurity

Behavior of atoms might mean new applications for semiconducting materials

meteorology

The enigmas of the storms

Experiment investigates luminous phenomenon similar to lightning

Phytochemical

Alternative extraction

Study indicates new ways of using medicinal plants

Biochemistry

Pitomba versus pests

Protein extracted from the fruit eliminates fungi and borers

Genetics

Welding the DNA

Team from USP corrects genetic defects of a rare kind of cancer

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hematology

Transplant made to measure

Study shows how genetic mutations help to select donors of bone marrow

biochemistry

The danger mapped out

Studies confirm the relationship of free radicals with a series of diseases

Medicine

From obesity to diabetes

The raising of the levels of a protein explains weight gain

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epistemology

Dilemmas of communication

The field of study expands debate on its object and scientific status

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Urbanism

A city for all

A kit want to help the population to understand the urban legislation

thematic

Philosophizing in Portuguese

Four major projects from USP's discuss from Aristotle to Habermas

Interview

Leandro Konder: The discrete charm of Marxism

Leandro Konder launches a new book, A Question of Ideology, in which he reasserts his beliefs in the modernity of Marx's ideological ideas

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conjuncture

Crises, virtues and opportunities

Equipment and input importation has raised the cost of research in Brazil

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