Issue # 134 _ April 2007

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Africa in the genes of the Brazilian people
DNA analysis reveals regions that better fed the slave traffic into the country By

S&T Policy

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Transformation Champions

The index in the magazine Inovação (Innovation) will highlight the leading companies of Brazilian industry

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Indicators

It is up to the companies now

Iberian-American meeting evaluates the performance of scientific and innovative development

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Evaluation

Internet academies

Brazil is well placed in the ranking of universities that know how to disclose their production on the web

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Cooperation

A promising flirt

Brazil and Canada sign an intentions protocol in the area of S&T, the first step towards a formal agreement

Partnership

Digital inclusion

FAPESP and Microsoft Research create a Virtual Instituteto develop new technologies

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Science

Climate

The stressed forest

Researchers evaluate the effects of the 2005 drought in Amazonia

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Mathematics

Creativity in chaos

An award conceded to a Brazilian researcher reveals successes in the building of an innovative theory about dynamic systems

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Ecology

Life in the mud

The mangrove swamp crab and its traditional hunter depend on each other for survival

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Health

Double risk Pregnancy

Marijuana harms the neurological development of newly born children

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Biochemistry

Another use

A new mechanism through which vitamin C combats free radicals is identified

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Genetics

The DNA of the Pampas (grassy plains)

As well as the Spanish, Guarani and Charrua Indians are among the Gaucho's ancestors

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Technology

Microelectronics

Revolution on the horizon

A possible substitute for silicon in a new generation of computer chips has come forward

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Physics

Laser in the factories

Optical fiber guided light animates industrial use

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Physics

Light web

New X-ray production technique could help to unravel the 3-dimensional structure of proteins

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Physics

Optical innovation

Filters rescue the possible commercial application of the chromium laser

Steelmaking

Residue becomes steel

Recovered sludge returns to the CSN production process

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Energy

Biodiesel in ascension

What is missing for this oil to establish itself as a national biofuel

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Humanities

Cinema

The subversive who invented cinematography criticism

Author of the praised novel and the unpublished work Cemitério [Cemetery], which will come out by June, Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes will have his complete works published and is the theme of a master's thesis at USP

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History

Backlands called Brazil

On the centenary of the Rondon Commission, the country still suffers from the same ailments

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Sciences of religion

Between the Cross and The Cauldron

How the relationship between the Vatican and the Brazilian Church developed

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