Issue # 127 _ September 2006
S&T Policy
Press
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Good news month
Pesquisa FAPESP wins an award in journalism and debuts the new version of its website
Science
Cosmology
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The daringness of challenging Einstein
Brazilian astronomers propose another way of explaining the expansion of the Universe
By Ricardo ZorzettoDomestic accidents
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Living with the danger
Few mothers know how to avoid their children suffering falls, cuts and burns at home
By Carlos FioravantiPublic health
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Through the wall
Viruses and bacteria propagatefreely on the frontier between United States and Mexico
By Mariana Martinez Estens and Carlos FioravantiPhysiology
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Masking drunkenness
Energy drink conceals some effects of alcoholic drinks and amplifies others
Technology
Pharmacology
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Powerful sand
Silica associated to a vaccine induces the organism to produce more antibodies
By Dinorah ErenoMaterials engineering
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Colored and sensitive
Films applied to windows and mirrors control changes in the luminosity of the environment
By Dinorah ErenoHumanities
Literature
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Tradition without an impasse
Brazil loses a true intellectual, in the old style: João Alexandre Barbosa