Issue # 117 _ November 2005
S&T Policy
Nomenclature

Coveted organization chart
Conflicting interests spice up the reform in the Table of Knowledge Areas
Science
Neurophysiology

The impact of horror
A study gives dimension to the tension generated by violent images
Geology

The Earth covered with ice
Some 630 million years ago, the Amazon was a desert lying below an icecap
Technology
Molecular biology

A factory of mice
Transgenic rodents produce the protein responsible for blood coagulation