Issue # 206 _ April 2013
Cover
- Shared challenges
- Company laboratories in university parks enrich students' education and respond to new research and development demands By Fabrício Marques
- Address for excellence
- Unicamp facility combines modern equipment for research in genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and cell biology all under one roof By Fabrício Marques
S&T Policy
Astrophysics
Sentinel in the cosmic darkness
Super radio telescope inaugurated in Chile is looking for the earliest stars in the cold, dark and distant Universe
By Marcos PivettaBrasiliana
Portraits of Brazil
Library housing the José Mindlin collection inaugurated at USP
By Bruno de PierroScience
OCEANOGRAPHY
Precious sea mud
Sediments reveal the climatic and evolutionary history of environments that disappeared thousands of years ago
By Carlos FioravantiCLIMATOLOGY
Thaw in the Andes
Aerial photos and satellite images show accelerated shrinking of South American glaciers
By Ricardo ZorzettoSPECIAL BIOTA EDUCATION II
Sustainable interventions
Human intervention helped maintain the biological diversity of the Pampa Biome, one of the most complex Brazilian ecosystems
By Rodrigo de Oliveira AndradeEthology
Sweet learning
Experiments demonstrate honeybees’ capacity for associating colors and signals
By Igor ZolnerkevicIMMUNOLOGY
Vulnerable Defenses
Doctors are mobilizing for early detection of diseases caused by failures in the barriers against microorganisms
By Carlos FioravantiTechnology
Biotechnology
Planting medicine
Anti-HIV drug is obtained from genetically modified soybeans
By Marcos de OliveiraCHEMISTRY
Biological silver
Nanoparticles from fungi are successfully tested on antibacterial fabrics and on sores
By Dinorah ErenoAGRICULTURE
Profitable plots
Small agricultural automation company in São Carlos gains international recognition
By Yuri VasconcelosEntrepreneurship
Business emerges from the past
Entrepreneurial archeology plays an increasing role at infrastructure construction sites
By Bruno de PierroHumanities
ARTS
When Modernism came in from the cold
An exposition, virtual collection and book celebrate the centennial of the first Lasar Segall exhibition in Brazil
By Maria Hirszman
