Issue # 273 _ November 2018

Cover

Before memory loss: Psychiatric problems may be the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease

S&T Policy

Global warming

Hotter and drier cities

Modeling indicates temperatures will rise and rainfall will be halved in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Santos by the end of the century

Funding

Reap what you sow

With ambitions to quadruple capital invested, São Paulo investment fund backs 20 innovative companies

Innovation

A Babel of startups

A startup support program in Santiago, Chile, is attracting entrepreneurs from around the world

Indicators

2017 Report

Activities Report shows that FAPESP increased funding for innovative research and business partnerships

Infrastructure

Floating laboratory

Brazilian Navy survey vessel to receive R$75 million in funding under new agreement

Science

Archaeogenetics

When indigenous people occupied Lagoa Santa

Ancient DNA reveals rapid human colonization of South America 14,000 years ago

Biology

Misleading similarities between species

Animals and plants that share a great likeness do not always have similar evolutionary histories

Philosophy of Science

New origins

Brazilian versions of the Charles Darwin classic puts into context the development of evolution theory

Heritage

First items salvaged

A rare meteorite and fragments of Brazil’s most ancient human fossil have been found in the rubble of the National Museum

Collections

A foundation under threat

With scientific collections numbering 600,000 items, the Zoobotanical Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul is struggling for survival

Physics

International meeting point

Instituto Principia will bring together researchers from across Brazil and abroad through projects with a maximum duration of six months

Interview

Francis Halzen: In pursuit of neutrinos and cosmic rays

Lead scientist at IceCube observatory comments on the recent discovery of high-energy particles

Technology

R&D

New perspectives for industry

Network of 21 applied research institutes funded by SENAI provided more than 500 projects of interest to the production sector

R&D

Testing at natural scale

CIMATEC’s new facility in Camaçari, Bahia, will have capabilities to build pilot plants and can support research at a national scale

Metallurgical engineering

Two centuries of Ipanema

Steel pioneer represented the beginning of the country’s First Industrial Revolution

Humanities

Linguistics

Toward the survival of indigenous languages

With the help of technology, researchers work to prevent the disappearance of native languages in Brazil

Music

The batuque, the bandoneon, and the saboteurs of work

Study discusses the presence of marginal figures in the lyrics of samba and tango music in the first decades of the 20th century

Communication

Social media broadens opportunities

International research shows that digital platforms break social bubbles by democratizing experiences, and sharing practical tips and academic content