Issue # 185 _ July 2011

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Cover

The magnetic history of Brazil
Analysis of brick fragments from old buildings reveals a weakening of the magnetic field in South America By

S&T Policy

Gender

War on stereotype

Unicamp students join together to increase the presence of women in engineering

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Budget

The battle for pre-salt

Scientific societies go to Brasilia to try and reverse the loss of resources

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History of FAPESP II

New paradigms

The Bioq-FAPESP Program boosted biochemistry in the 1970s and inspired policies to promote research

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Indicators

Advances and challenges

Analysis shows that São Paulo has more researchers working in companies and a higher rate of graduation than Spain

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Science

Statistics

The life of words

Physicists and linguist examine the evolution of the vocabulary of on-line communities

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Paleontology

A prehistoric tapir

Western Amazonia may have harbored a now extinct herbivore species 40,000 years ago

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International Year of Chemistry

Medicine is made of molecules

Chemical components are behind diseases, diagnoses and treatments

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Bioenergy

Unexpected butanol

Researcher extracts fuel using vacuum and contradicts established paradigm

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Nutrition

Chickens along the River Solimões

River dwellers change a diet of fish with manioc flour for frozen poultry

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Evolution

When hybrids are fertile

Unlikely cross breeds can create new species of plants and animals

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Technology

Computation

Virtual Attendants

Facial animation system could become most intuitive means of computer interaction

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Aviation

Remote Control

Small unmanned aircraft gain space in Brazil

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Agriculture

Protecting passion fruit

New early diagnostic kit for bacteria that devastates orchards

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Cardiology

Our children

Action by children reduces cardiovascular risks in parents

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Cardiology

Artificial Heart

Device developed at the Dante Pazzanese Institute should be implanted in the first patient this year

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Immunization

The increased production of vaccines

Butantan develops technology to increase production and lower costs

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Humanities

Jesuits

The man of God in the court of men

Biography shows Father Vieira as a skilled political orator

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Melancholy

Psychology from the pulpit

The colonial roots of understanding the national soul

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