Issue # 286 _ December 2019

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Cover

Public faith
Researchers around the world are attempting to understand the growth of evangelicalism in Brazil, where it is rising faster than in any other country
Corporate strategy
Evangelical presence in the legislature triples thanks to backing by large churches

Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years

Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years

The challenge of generating bioenergy

Pesquisa FAPESP covered the efforts of Brazilian science to make viable the use of sugar sector byproducts for producing electricity and 2G ethanol

S&T Policy

Graduate education

5-dimensional benchmarking

CAPES unveils a new, more comprehensive and diverse set of quality metrics for master’s and doctoral programs

Scientific production

The race to measure impact

Brazilian universities increasingly investing in offices dedicated to managing and measuring performance

Oversight

Universities under investigation

São Paulo Legislative Assembly Inquiry makes recommendations on how to improve the management of USP, UNICAMP, and UNESP

Funding

In defense of science

Party leaders propose research funding as a means to overcome economic crisis

Science

Immunology

Battle of the cells

Experimental therapy tested for the first time in Brazil uses a patient's own defense system to fight cancer

Environment

Oil spill spreads

Analysis suggests three potential sources of the oil near the Brazilian coast

Ecology 

A bat in the nest

Cameras catch winged mammals attacking eggs and chicks in bird nests in the Atlantic Forest of São Paulo State

Ornithology

A comeback in the Atlantic Forest

Alagoas curassows are reintroduced into their habitat 40 years after going extinct in the wild

Environment

Hidden landscapes in the Pantanal

Researchers find a 1000 km2 lake hidden under aquatic plants on the plains of the Rio Negro

Molecular biology

Sugarcane mapped

A team coordinated by Brazilian scientists finds over 370,000 genes when sequencing a commercial cultivar of the plant

Technology

Bioenergy

Tapping more energy from sugarcane

The sugar and ethanol industry is poised to double its production of electricity and biomethane from waste over the coming years

Pesquisa Fapesp 20 Years

The challenge of generating bioenergy

Pesquisa FAPESP covered the efforts of Brazilian science to make viable the use of sugar sector byproducts for producing electricity and 2G ethanol

Aeronautical engineering

The arrival of flying cars

Development of eVTOLs advances in Brazil and around the world

Humanities

Law

Scale out of balance

The presence of women in different legal professions decreases the higher you look on the career ladder

Literature

Monteiro Lobato and the book-selling machine

Research based on new documents revisits the writer's contribution to Brazilian editorial history