Issue # 180 _ February 2011

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Cover

The internet is born
The scientific and technological steps that led to the great worldwide network of computers By
The internet's early days
The story of the internet's first moments in Brazil By

S&T Policy

Teaching Science

A school in orbit

Teachers and students in the State of São Paulo's coastal area build a satellite

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Dissemination of Science

Boiling

International Year of Chemistry shows the science of atoms in our daily lives

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Integration

The map of light

Researchers interact with Nobel laureates and plan experiments in biology and physics

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Internationalization

Quality and experience

Special program attracts visiting professors to Unicamp from abroad

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Science

Physics

Restless neighborhood

Strategy allows evaluation of the magnetic interaction between nanoparticles

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Homage

Empty spaces in Brazilian science

Farewell Jayme Tiomno, Victória Rossetti and Lynaldo Cavalcanti

Neurology

Expanded short circuit

Electric over stimulation of the brain can affect the heart and lead to sudden death from epilepsy

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Physiology

Memories of origin

The cells of the endothelium store information in the state they were in when they were extracted from the donor

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Paleontology

Late Extinction

Uruguayan fossil indicates that the terror bird disappeared shortly before the arrival of humans in the Americas

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Geology

Rocks along the way

Fifty-four new minerals have been found for the first time in Brazil

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Astrophysics

The Milky Way revisited

The galaxy's arms may be closer and not as spiral-shaped as had been thought

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Ecology

Eight-legged puppets

Wasp larvae manipulate the behavior of spiders

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Technology

Nanotechnology

Accurate particles

Alternatives for the use of cells to battle diseases and to obtain more accurate diagnoses

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Biotechnology

Genetic solutions

Transgenic mosquitoes are set free in Bahia to fight dengue fever

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Humanities

Cinema

Artistic madness

How the seventh art depicts mental disorders

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History

A city built from sweat and steel

Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional was the initial test of developmentalism

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