Issue # 222 _ August 2014

Technoscience

pollution

Sponge sucks up oil from the ocean

Analgesic

Acetaminophen or placebo? Either works

Rural areas

Drones map rural areas

Cosmetics testing

A factory for artificial skin

Light

Light deforms water

Avalanches

Volcanic avalanche

Candidemia

Enzyme facilitates fungal infection

native language

Method determines the native language of foreigners writing in English

satellite

Brazil launches nanosatellite

monitoring

All the sharks in Recife