Highlights

José Israel Vargas

José Israel Vargas: From crisis to opportunity

The former minister looks back on his career

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Like our parents

New study increases the controversy over man’s arrival in the Americas

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Flavio Alterthum

Flavio Alterthum: Lessons about Brazil’s ethanol

The co-author of the best-known basic microbiology book in Brazil

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Evolution

When hybrids are fertile

Unlikely cross breeds can create new species of plants and animals

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Nutrition

Chickens along the River Solimões

River dwellers change a diet of fish with manioc flour for frozen poultry

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Bioenergy

Unexpected butanol

Researcher extracts fuel using vacuum and contradicts established paradigm

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International Year of Chemistry

Medicine is made of molecules

Chemical components are behind diseases, diagnoses and treatments

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Paleontology

A prehistoric tapir

Amazonia may have harbored a now extinct species 40,000 years ago

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Statistics

The life of words

The evolution of the vocabulary of on-line communities

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Memory

Mapping the New World

Astronomers determined latitudes in the Amazon and wrote about the region

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The magnetic history of Brazil

Magnetic field in South America is weakening, analysis points out

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Indicators

Advances and challenges

Analysis shows the strength of research and development in São Paulo

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History of FAPESP II

New paradigms

The Bioq-FAPESP Program boosted biochemistry in the 1970s

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Budget

The battle for pre-salt

Scientific societies go to Brasilia to try and reverse the loss of resources

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Gender

War on stereotype

Unicamp students join together to increase the presence of women in engineering

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