Issue # 170 _ April 2010

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Cover

Uncertain boundaries
A São Paulo research group characterizes 23 organic disorders of sexual development By

S&T Policy

Sustainability

Energy of the future

Convention shows that Latin America will play a fundamental role in the expansion of the supply of renewable fuels

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Infrastructure

Collection multiplied

FAPESP's FAP-Books Program earmarks R$33.9 million to buy 165,000 titles

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Climate change

Scientists under attack

Isolated problems in the work of the IPCC fuel campaign against the panel

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Education

Stimulus for creativity

Students exhibit innovative proposals at a Fair at USP

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Tribute

Shared knowledge

José Mindlin, who has died aged 95, leaves a legacy for culture and science

Science

Environment

Hidden greenery

Native vegetation in the State of São Paulo has increased over two uninterrupted decades and now covers an area similar in size to that of the1970s

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Geophysics

When humans make the earth quake

Water wells cause dozens of earthquakes a day in São Paulo State

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Zoology

Colors in the wind

Genes and fossils reveal the origin of South American butterflies

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Ecology

Stories about dead shells

Disappearance of brachiopods and mollusks indicates environmental imbalance in oceans and rivers

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Technology

Forestry Engineering

Wood out of rubber

Study shows feasibility of using the trunk of the Pará rubber tree to manufacture furniture

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Chemistry

Valuable antibodies

Companies and institutes in Brazil produce essential input for research

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Humanities

Political Science

Money for democracies

Preventing corruption and ensuring competition are among the concerns in the debate to identify the best model for political funding

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History

Animal progress

How modernity separated man and nature in the metropolis of São Paulo

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international relations

The Empire of innovation

Science hidden in the Itamaraty archives

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