International issue | December 2019
Cover
- When light bent
- Observations of the 1919 solar eclipse from Brazil and Africa provided the first experimental proof of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
- In the British expedition’s shadow
- The Sobral eclipse was also observed by scientific expeditions from Brazil and the US
- Daniel Kennefick: The importance of Sobral
- An astrophysicist and science historian reports that without the observation of the eclipse in the city of Ceará, the experimental results of 1919 would probably have been inconclusive
S&T Policy
Internationalization
Long distance connections
Initiatives that promote networking and knowledge exchange among Brazilian researchers in the United States are on the rise
Intellectual property
Mapping out the roadblocks
A study looks at why Brazilian industry is not very innovative and suggests that academic publishing and patent counts are two sides of the same coin
Shared facilities
Faster access to equipment
USP and UNICAMP create portals to expand the shared use of core research facilities
