Issue # 256 _ June 2017

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Funding in crisis
Alternatives for softening the impact of federal budget cuts on national Research and Development efforts By
Experiment over
The Science Without Borders student exchange program, which spent R$13.2 billion, mostly on scholarships to send undergraduate students abroad, has ended By

S&T Policy

INNOVATION

Reasons to award incentives

The IMF and OECD suggest that governments provide tax incentives to encourage companies to do more research

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SCIENTOMETRICS

Sleeping Beauties

To study the scientific process and perfect the evaluation systems, researchers analyze innovative papers that were only belatedly recognized

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Science

ECOLOGY

Remaking the Cerrado

Direct planting of seeds and soil reuse prove to be viable techniques for restoring native vegetation

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Epidemiology

Breaking boundaries

Real-time genome sequencing reconstructs trajectory of Zika virus across the Americas

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Pharmacology

A key to unlock the brain

Carbon-based nanomaterial may help medication reach the central nervous system

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GEOPHYSICS

Tension beneath the Earth

Characterization of the movements of geologic faults in the Earth’s crust explains seismic tremors in Brazil

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ASTROPHYSICS

A revealing collision

Gravitational waves emitted by merging black holes confirm the existence of a new population of these celestial objects

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Metrology

Maintaining weight

Planck’s constant is set to replace the metal cylinder that has served as an international reference for the kilogram since 1889

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Technology

AEROSPACE SYSTEMS

Green propulsion

INPE and the Brazilian Air Force develop sustainable engine and fuel for use in rockets and satellites

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SPACE ENGINEERING 

A new communications satellite

The SGDC will bring technological advancements to Brazil and improve the civil and military communications system

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Environment

Landscape control

Software helps monitor the health of city trees

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Humanities

SOCIETY

From the factory floor to the floor of Congress

Researchers review the history of the struggle by Brazil’s feminist movements

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CINEMA

Horror, Brazilian style

Current wave of films of this genre was preceded by a tradition little known or studied

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