Highlights

history

CNPq’s 50 years

Book recovers part of the history of S&T in Brazil

Investments

Agency for innovation

Finep completes 35 years and consolidates its role in support of R&D&E

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Health

Radioactive seeds against cancer

Ipen masters the technology for capsules containing iodine-125

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Materials Engineering

Tough for all tests

Research to develop a process that turns gear boxesmore resistant

Food

Nutrition as a defense

Products are based on the relationship between nutrients and immunology

Astronomical instrumentation

A vision of space

INPE researchers build a telescope to capture x-rays and cosmic gamma rays

Retrospect

Under the surveillance of the waves

Radar was developed in the first half of last century, and became indispensable in times of war and peace

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Cover

The saint in the window

Yet another myth of glass

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Cover

The solution that saves

A solution rich in salt lessens lesions from hemorrhagic shock

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Phytotherapy

Beating naturally

Compound of medicinal plants stops arrhythmia

Genetics

Virus-based medicines

Production of vectors makes gene therapy advance

Epidemiology

State of alert

More aggressive subtypes of Aids virus advance in Brazil

BIOLOGY

Penta, the champion clone

Researchers from Unesp make a copy of an adult animal

paleontology

Torturous routes

Hominid fossil suggests that our historical evolution is more complex

speleology

Technology in caving

Visits to the Bonito region with the minimal of environmental impact

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