Issue # 136 _ June 2007
S&T Policy
Cooperation
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Making Sense of Art
USP team joins international effort to recover documents on Latin American artistic movements
By Fabrício MarquesCelebration
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National paradigm
FAPESP reaches its 45th anniversary with stability and constancy in its support for research
Partnership agreement
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Multiplied effort
FAPESP-Padtec agreement to mobilize researchers in order to improve optical communication systems
By Revisor and RedaçãoScience
climate change
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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 OliveiraNeurology
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Banana connection
An electric signal sent directly to the brain gives monkeys a clue about where to find food
Dissemination
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The origin of the controversy
São Paulo exhibition shows Darwin's path to the theory of evolution
By Maria GuimarãesPhysics
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Lost links
Quantum entanglement may disappear suddenly, a stone in the path of quantum computing
By Daniel KonTechnology
Information Technology
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Opportune business
Companies create centers in Brazil to develop software and applications for the global market
By Dinorah ErenoComputer Engineering
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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 Vasconcelos