Issue # 124 _ June 2006
S&T Policy
Cooperation
The structure surrounding the brain
The CInAPCe Program promotes an unprecedented partnership or the mapping of epilepsy
By Fabrício MarquesBiodiversity

The rule of the closed field
A national law obstructs the collection of biological samples and paralyzes research
By Marcos PivettaEvaluation
To publish is not everything
An article proposes a qualitative method for evaluating researcher's performances
By Fabrício MarquesScience
Medicine

Intense doubt
Nobody knows if it really is adult stem cells that work in related cases of success
By Carlos FioravantiParadigms
Darwin versus Adam
Advance of creationism mobilizes a scientist in defense of the Theory of Evolution
By Revisor and RedaçãoBiology

Music in the marshes
Frogs, toads and tree frogs exhibit 70 calls and 29 of sexual reproduction
By Maria GuimarãesPhysics

Ghosts under the earth
Detectors accompany the disappearance of the most abundant particles in the Universe
By Carlos FioravantiTechnology
Computing

Programmed Lives
Projects seek to improve the traffic for users of collective transport
By Dinorah ErenoEnergy

Soybeans in the refinery
Petrobras's research center develops technique for using vegetable oil in the production of diesel
By Marcos de OliveiraBiochemistry

The cure from poison
Toxin of the urutu pit viper acts as a cicatrizant and in the formation of the blood vessels
By Dinorah ErenoMetrology

Brazilian precision
A new atomic clock capable of going slow only one second in millions of years is developed in Brazil
By Marcos de OliveiraHumanities
Sociology
Punishment and crime
Study from USP reveals that recent violence of the PCC has old roots
By Carlos HaagEconomy
Piped gas
Crisis between Brazil and Bolivia has more geopolitical reasons than economic ones
By Carlos Haag