Issue # 233 _ July 2015

S&T Policy

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In 10 years, the FAPESP Virtual Library has gone from a database to an information system with analytical tools

Scientometrics

Valuable records

Data compiled from the Lattes Platform provide fuel for studies on science in Brazil and reveal trends

INDICATORS

Science in motion

Census shows growth in the number of research groups in Brazil and a reduction in their regional concentration

Science

MEDICINE

The new faces of cancer

The frequency of cases of head and neck tumors caused by HPV, transmitted by sexual contact, has increased in young people and non-smokers

Neuroscience

Why so many curves?

Folds and thickness of the brain’s surface layer are not related to the number of neurons

GENOMICS

An orderly swarm

DNA sequencing of bees helps to decipher how these insects develop

Microbiology

United they are strong

Physicists and biologists investigate how Xylella fastidiosa bacteria assemble into biofilms

GEOCHEMISTRY

The third bank of the river

Organic matter transported by the Amazon travels nearly 600 kilometers into the Atlantic, reaching the Caribbean

PALEONTOLOGY

A Caribbean cousin

Fossil of 12 million-year-old sea turtle found in Venezuela is a distant relative of South American freshwater turtles

Physics

Quantum acceleration

Clouds of cold atoms can be used to measure subtle variations in the force of gravity

Technology

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

High-speed business

USP hosts start-up accelerator program

BIOENGINEERING

Made-to-measure prostheses

Biofabris Institute produces titanium alloy implants for patients who lost skull or face bones because of accidents or disease

NANOTECHNOLOGY

Unexpected filaments

Experiment results in the appearance of a microtube covered in nanowires that could have applications in nanoelectronics and microelectronics

Humanities

ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

Behind the façades

USP inventory calls attention to the loss of historic structures in the state’s first coffee-growing region

GEOLOGICAL TOURISM

A 600-million-year old São Paulo

Itinerary includes monuments and buildings in the historic center of São Paulo adorned with stone from a distant past

SOCIOLOGY

Persistent Inequalities

Although access to income and civil rights has increased in the past five decades, some disparities, like race, are resistant to change

ARCHEOLOGY

The City and the Countryside

Studies highlight the importance of rural areas in the ancient Greek cities of the Mediterranean