Highlights

Memory

Motorless flights

Motorless flights

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Cover

The origin of the mammals

Fossils of small species discovered in Rio Grande do Sul

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Paleontology

Luzia living with the sloths

South American mammals were contemporaries of Luzia

ENVIRONMENT

Scars of occupation

Satellite map of the Northeast depicts the devastation of the caatinga

GENOMICS

Three new attack routes against the pest

Article compares the genomes of bacteria and shows how to avoid citric canker

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EPIDEMIOLOGY

The bacteria of modern life

Infestation by bacteria is changing and brings public health problems

Medicine

Identities revealed

Progress in the fight to reduce false diagnoses of Chagas's disease

Zootechny

The unexpected bull

The first Brazilian clone from a fetus somatic cell is born

Syndrome

The first map of Down

Team relates genetic origins to the manifestations of the syndrome

Genetics

More 19 genes

Discovered new components of the chromosome responsible for Down

PSYCHIATRY

Cards on the table

Prizewinning thesis defines personality of pathological gamblers

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Dialogs with water

Molecules that change their behavior enable to model new substances

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Physics

The high relief of memory

Team clarifies an essential phenomenon in computers

Fusion

Delicate relationship

More and more often scientists are making use of art in their analysis

Anthropology

In the footsteps of Macunaíma

Researchers retrace the folklore research mission through the North and Northeast