Issue # 179 _ January 2011

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Cover

A thousand days that are worth a life
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S&T Policy

Internationalization

Interest in diversity

Group from Unesp in Rio Claro is a reference for foreign biologists

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Cancun Conference

Multilateral arm wrestling

Climate change issues move forward in Mexico but a more global agreement is suspended

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Bioprospecting

Bureaucratic maze

The Ministry of the Environment (MMA) has devised a new strategy to evaluate requests for licenses by researchers interested in collecting and studying species from Brazil

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Science

Immunology

Microscopic torch

Marking cells allows us to know how the selection of more effective antibodies occurs

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Evolution

G'day, kangaroos

The oldest relatives of the Australian marsupials may have lived in South America

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Health

Suffocating heart

Responsible for cardiac alterations there may be a blood diagnosis test for apnea

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Astrophysics

On a safe course

Simulation explains why the Earth did not collide with the Sun

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Geology

Islands in the Savannah

"Blotches" in the cerrado emerged in ancient riverbeds in the Amazon

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Technology

Mechanical Engineering

Clean air

Company develops system to purify and humidify the environment

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New Materials

Vegetable plastics

Packaging and products for agricultural use made from corn, cassava and fibers

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Biotechnology

Genetic Tool

Molecular markers identify tender meat in Nelore cattle

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Physics

Electrons at high speed

Particle accelerator designed and built at the USP Physics Institute

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Humanities

Education

School Sounds

Teaching music becomes compulsory again

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History

Religious Freedom under the Dutch

The freedom of the Jews in Nassau's Brazil

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Sociology

Faith in modernity and stepping on the gas

Brazil's controversial relationship with automobiles

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