Highlights

Biomedical engineering

Proven efficiency

Equipment uses birds retina to test medicines with neurological action

chemistry

Less pollution

Nanocatalyst created in UFRGS eliminates aromatic compounds from petroleum

Electronic engineering

Innovative technical assistance

Equipment speedily detects problems and repairs modules in switching centers

engineering

Organic with a green seal

Laboratory prepare certification of foods produced without use of chemicals

Retrospect

Towards the city skies

Some one hundred and fifty years ago the security lock for elevators was invented

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environment

An island’s lost ice

Map shows shrinking glaciers on King George Island

astrophysics

Pulsating Sun

Variation in the diameter of the sun is smaler than used to be believed

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personality

A complete physicist

Dead at 96, Bernhard Gross coupled theory and practice with rare brilliance

Cattle

A sure shot

Vaccine ensures that only animals infected with disease be slaughtered

Genomics

The map of the paper tree

New eucalyptus genes drives the search for increased productivity

Medicine

The vaccine that protects the heart

Ambitious project begins to combat rheumatic fever

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Cover

Malaria and some new diseases

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

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Interview

Carlos Alfredo Joly and Vanderlei Perez Canhos:In favor of the environment

Amongst 142 countries, Brazil achieved a prominent position in the recently announced Environmental Sustainability Index. But the coordinators of FAPESP's Biota program warn: there is still plenty of room to be conquered in the international scena

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Visual Arts

Movement in bronze

Research analyses the sculpture collection of Edgar Degas

History

History made of paper

Projects throw light on the documents guarded in the Deops/SP from 1940 to 1983