Highlights

History

The vital Brazil with a ‘Z’

Project recovers the memory of the scientist Vital Brazil

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investment

Advances and problems

Federal government creates research institutes as an emergency measure

Genomics

Brazilian model

English sociologist highlights Brazil's participation in the world research

public policy

Health in first place

Projects from the fourth call also attend to education and the environment

Internet

Education and fiber-optic

Canadian network consolidates distance learning projects

Agriculture

Shedding light on orange trees

A technique uses the laser in the identification of citrus canker

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Biochemistry

Vegetal strengthener

A researcher synthesizes phytohormone that makes the plant's mass grow

New materials

Sugar Plastic

A Brazilian product is improved and goes after the international market

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technology

Novel topographic maps

Company makes maps with detailed topography

technology

Transgenics under the microscope

Technique detects genetically modified products

Oil

Formation of black cocoons

The movement of sediments on the sea bottom is the object of a study

Retrospect

Where it all began

Reform of the University of Coimbra educated the first Brazilian researchers

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Technoscience

Thinking is an enemy of hurry

Thinking is an enemy of hurry

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John Vander Sande

John Vander Sande: Between two worlds

Director of a technology-based company and MIT professor came to Brazil to set out his ideas on entrepreneurism

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Astrophysics

Where stars are born

Unprecedented mapping detects 150 nurseries in the Southern Hemisphere