Issue # 79 _ September 2002
S&T Policy
FAPESP
Letter to researchers
Here is the full text of the letter sent by FAPESP's scientific director to the researchers
Investments

Agency for innovation
Finep completes 35 years and consolidates its role in support of R&D&E
By RedaçãoScience
Astrophysics

Where stars are born
Unprecedented mapping detects 150 nurseries in the Southern Hemisphere
cattle raising

Liquid solution
Joint use of hydrating agent and diuretic fights intoxication by ammonia in cattle
evolution

When snakes had paws
Polemics over serpents shows how organisms can acquire or lose apparently essential characteristics
environment

In the oven's mouth
Burning eucalyptus to produce charcoal releases irritating and cancerous substances
BIOLOGY

Cleaning up the bottom of the sea
Team from Unicamp reveals the way of life of the cleaner-fish
Ecology

Wealth in danger
Shortage of large animals may reduce the diversity of species in regenerating forests
By Verônica FalcãoTechnology
Materials Engineering

Tough for all tests
Unicamp gets together with a company to develop a process that turns gear boxesmore resistant
Astronomical instrumentation

A vision of space
INPE researchers build a telescope to capture x-rays and cosmic gamma rays