Issue # 136 _ June 2007
S&T Policy
Cooperation

Making Sense of Art
USP team joins international effort to recover documents on Latin American artistic movements
By Fabrício MarquesPartnership agreement

Multiplied effort
FAPESP-Padtec agreement to mobilize researchers in order to improve optical communication systems
By Revisor and RedaçãoScience
Public policy

Predictions for the forest
Models show that part of the Amazon is going to turn into savannah and suggest that the effects of global warming may be reduced if the clearance of vegetation is avoided
By Fabrício Marquesclimate change

Technology versus global warming
Brazil takes the lead with ethanol, biodiesel and direct planting
By Claudia IziqueEnergy
The chemistry of biodiesel
New catalyst improves the production of bio-fuels
By Marcos de OliveiraArcheology

Fragments of the past
Indian ceramics reveal that the heart of the Amazon, today a demographic void, once housed vast and complex communities before the Europeans arrived
By Ricardo ZorzettoBiology

Enlarged sequencing
The presence of jumping genes increases the size of the genome of Aedes aegypti, the dengue and yellow fever mosquito
By Marcos PivettaDissemination

The origin of the controversy
São Paulo exhibition shows Darwin's path to the theory of evolution
By Maria GuimarãesPhysics

Lost links
Quantum entanglement may disappear suddenly, a stone in the path of quantum computing
By Daniel KonTechnology
Information Technology

Opportune business
Companies create centers in Brazil to develop software and applications for the global market
By Dinorah ErenoComputer Engineering

Intelligence for the railways
System organizes railways and reduces by 18% the time trains spend at shunting yards
By Fabrício MarquesNanotecnhnology
Multiple uses
Nanostrucutured resins act as bactericides and fungicides for the of washing machines and mattresses
By Yuri VasconcelosHumanities
Sociology
The joyful dictatorship
Intellectuals defend changes to save Bahia’s most traditional celebration: Carnival
By Gonçalo Júnior