Highlights

Urbanism

The new land of mist that the economy invented

Project maps out the changes in São Paulo brought about by globalization

Archive

School Memories

Project organizes a data bank to archive public policies in education

Biodiversity

Actions against biopiracy

WIPO studies how to protect cultures and genetic resources

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Report

Genomics for health

WHO predicts advances in the fight against morbid and genetic diseases

FAPs

State indicators

Foundations will take part in the National System for Information in S&T

Worker’s Health

Underdiagnosis jeopardizes public policies

Project will quantify real incidence work accidents in Piracicaba

NEW MATERIAL

Much more than simple glass

Vitreous material can be used in telescopes and artificial bones

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ENGINEERING

Tiny and notable

National Synchrotron Light Laboratory develops micro parts with wide use

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Metallurgy engineering

Controlled noise

Steel sheets and polymer form plates that absorb the vibrations of motors

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computing

Creation without limits

Software incorporates special effects into video systems

Agronomy industry

Environmental and energy gains

Project of mini mills proposes total integration around alcohol production

yeast

Wealth in the mill’s leftovers

Companies develop edible products from the residues of alcohol production

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Agronomy

Land without fire

In Pará, the stubble is ground up and becomes a fertilizer

Retrospect

The Ugly Duckling completes thirty years

The first Brazilian minicomputer that was projected and built at the Polytechnic School of USP as a task within the post graduation course

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Genetics

Mutation mapped

Research points to a gene that causes serious kidney disease in children

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