Issue # 283 _ September 2019

Environment

Deforestation at a crossroads

INPE's monitoring of the Amazon rainforest has earned international prestige but could be replaced by a private service

Financial autonomy of state universities in São Paulo

Fuel for innovation

Funding stability stimulated São Paulo state universities to invest in collaborating with the private sector, and in signing technology transfers

INDICATORS

Change with stability

Report highlights the 2018 investments of FAPESP both in research in collaboration with businesses, and in the international recognition of science produced in São Paulo

Interview

Klement Tockner: Creative environments

President of Austrian agency explains how the industry can benefit from basic science

Medicine

Clean blood against yellow fever

Experimental plasma exchange therapy reduced mortality to 5% this year in São Paulo

Epidemiology

A resurgence of leprosy

New cases have risen in Brazil for two consecutive years, with more than 28,000 confirmed cases in 2018

Genetics

New mutations linked to short stature

DNA testing reveals origin of 15% of growth disorders without a known cause in children

IPCC

Land use and climate change

Humanity uses over 70% of the earth's ice-free land surface, and primary activities account for nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions.

Paleontology

Why Crato uniquely preserves fossils

Physics

Shapes in transition

Group captures real-time changes in the geometry and charge distribution of four molecules

Transport

Electric buses on the horizon

Vehicle emissions policies in major cities stimulate development of battery-powered buses

Space

Pinpoint vision

Space camera made in Brazil can identify areas as small as nine square meters from Earth's orbit

Agronomy

Drone spraying

Unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly being used to spray pesticides and biological control agents on Brazilian farms

Archival science

Memories Revealed

The unpublished collections of Celso Furtado and Joaquim Nabuco recently donated to research institutions promise new revelations

Law

A culture of settlement

Research reveals a lack of knowledge among the public about mediation and conciliation mechanisms that can expedite dispute resolution and help to free up the judicial system

Cinema

An unreleased Nelson Pereira dos Santos film

Historian finds copy of short film made by Santos about a pioneering project by the Federal University of Mato Grosso