Highlights

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Strand by strand

Tests reveal how cosmetics, in many cases, often damage hair

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Microelectronics

Microchip plant

Integrated circuits transforms the Brazilian micro-electronics industry

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Synchrotron light

Plunging into the invisible universe

The particle accelerator expands the partnerships with companies

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Agricultural Engineering

Death by dehydration

Soybean oil and saccharose-based biopesticide eliminate agricultural pests

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Biochemistry

Neurological reagent

Butantan signs antibody patent licensing agreement with Millipore

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Biotechnology

United against cancer

Company and institute inaugurate Monoclonal Antibodies Laboratory

Communication

Is there an audience for a public TV channel?

This month the government defines the establishment of new television network

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Anthropology

I’m a man, sonny, and what a man

New issues place contemporary masculinity in check

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History

With no ideas in mind and a gun in hand

Lampião knew how to use his image to create an immortal myth

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Cinema

Between God and the Devil in the land of the sun

"Brasil em tempo de cinema" preserves the critical importance of the New Cinema

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Physics

Lost links

Quantum entanglement may disappear suddenly

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Dissemination

The origin of the controversy

São Paulo exhibition shows Darwin's path to the theory of evolution

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Biology

Enlarged sequencing

Jumping genes increases the size of the genome of Aedes aegypti

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Neurology

Banana connection

Electric signal sent to the brain shows monkeys where to find food

Archeology

Fragments of the past

Amazon housed vast and complex communities before the Europeans arrived

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