Issue # 210 _ August 2013

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Cover

Climate extremes
Report indicates that all of Brazil is likely to be at least 3ºC warmer by the end of the century, with rainfall 30% higher in the South-Southeast and up to 40% lower in the North-Northeast
Challenges in rural and urban areas
Climate change will exacerbate agricultural losses, increase the challenge of generating hydroelectric power and affect urban management

S&T Policy

Mobility

Competitive Science

Internationalization of São Paulo research is enhanced by the arrival of FAPESP grantee post-doctoral researchers from abroad

EVALUATION

Reconstructed Trajectories

Group evaluates FAPESP programs and shows where grant recipients supported by the Foundation came from and where they went after completing their projects

Ecology

Multiple views

Biodiversity report faces the challenge of integrating regional data with global, and traditional knowledge with scientific

Science

Medicine

No breath to catch

Respiratory tract alterations thwart improvement in cases of severe asthma

Zoology

Direct flight

Kinship between birds reveals a connection between the Amazon and Atlantic forests at two moments in the past

Paleontology

It’s a stick, it’s a stone

Petrified plants reveal the look of the landscape 300 million years ago in what are now the states of Tocantins and São Paulo

OBITUARY

Geographer of the Amazon’s cities

Bertha Becker promoted innovative ideas and established a broad view of the North of Brazil

Astronomy

Danger near Pluto

Brazilians are involved in assessing risk for the space probe New Horizons

Cryptography

The Voynich manuscript

Brazilian physicists propose that text in a manuscript written in an unknown language have meaning

Technology

Aeronautics

Wings from the South

Two new airplane manufacturers build factories in Santa Catarina

Environmental monitoring

Remote observation

The artisanal task of field research gains momentum using cameras and computer programs

Engineering

Floating over the terrain

Study contributes to development of tires that reduce compaction of agricultural soil

Humanities

External Relations

A Taste for Diplomacy

Brazilians show increased interest in developments in foreign policy

HISTORY

In search of the FEB's “good war”

Historians point out that the FEB left a legacy of civic engagement