Issue # 269 _ July 2018

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Cover

Leaping towards brilliance: Now in its final stage of construction, the latest-generation synchrotron light source could elevate the quality of Brazilian research
The race for the best light: Sirius will compete with both a fourth-generation facility inaugurated in 2016 in Sweden, and another planned to begin operating in 2020 in France

S&T Policy

DIFFUSION

Cartoon Science

The rising popularity of comic strips in science and research communication

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Closer links with industry

UNICAMP is Brazil’s highest-ranked university for patent applications, and USP for licensing royalties

Patent War

Researchers locked in legal battle for property rights linked to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool

FUNDING

Tax Law for Cancer

Program receives more tax-exemption funds for treatment than for research into the disease

Science

ECOLOGY

A more varied menu

Leafcutter ants can grow and eat various species of fungi, not just one, as had been previously thought

ENVIRONMENT

Energy to change

Conference discusses the role of biofuels in fighting global warming

INTERVIEW

José Goldemberg: From nuclear physics to ethanol

Researcher speaks of his major contributions to science

ECOLOGY

Underwater Forest

Coral reefs at the mouth of the Amazon River may be larger, deeper, and more complex than expected

ASTROPHYSICS

A meteorite in Serra Pelada

Fragments of one of the largest asteroids in the solar system recovered by researchers in Amazonia

SBPC

Battles never ending

The Society works to gain recognition for researchers and plays an active role in some of the great science debates in Brazil

Technology

MARINE ENGINEERING

Surveillance at sea

Radar designed to detect ships beyond the curvature of the earth uses a new tracking system developed in Brazil

INTERVIEW

Fernando Martins: Digital agriculture

Engineer explains how agribusiness benefits and grows with the support of new tools like the internet of things

Humanities

SOCIAL SCIENCES

International pregnancy

Demand for assisted reproduction increases foreign genetic material in Brazil

ANTHROPOLOGY

Between transgression and art

A research project analyzes how the pixação graffiti movement in São Paulo developed its own language of expression and became a force in art circles

INTERVIEW

John Kincaid and Paolo Dardanelli: Power balance

Researchers investigate the relationship between federal, state, and local governments