Issue # 66 _ July 2001
Cover
- Selective memory
- Research shows that the similar injuries, but from separate causes, make the brain reorganize in different fashions, resulting in epilepsy or a stroke By Tadeu Arantes
- A blow to post-trauma epilepsy
- A Unifesp project has resulted in a patent request for medicine based on scopolamine salts, substances normally used to treat amnesia, which can avoid the appearance of the illness in victims who have received substantial head injuries
S&T Policy
indicator
Knowledge (still) confined
The UNO's Technology Achievement Index (TAI) assesses the processes of creation, use, and diffusion of technology in 72 countries, and suggests measures to stimulate investments in search of solutions for problems in developing regions
By Revisor and Redaçãopartnership
Contracts X Conflicts
Nature comments report of the Forum that gathers companies and universities together
conference
Challenge to competence
Brazil to debate strategic plan for science, technology and innovation
new secretary
Focus on the energy matrix
Altenfelder Silva takes over the SCTDE, with plans to invest in research
commemoration
Education and democracy
Capes reaches its 50th anniversary, betting on the education of human resources
Science
biology
The dynamic rules of evolution
A mathematical model describes how the genetic code was formed and assists the unveiling of the origin of human beings
By Carlos FioravantiAnimal behavior
Bumps on the road of evolution
An USP study knocks down a model on the use and making of tools
archeology
Africans came first
Parts of three human bones, close to 8,400 years old, that have just been found by a team from São Paulo
By Marcos PivettaTechnology
ceramics
New model of manufacturing performance
Cepid supports the modernization of the 108 companies in the Porto Ferreira ceramics complex
By Claudia IziqueForest Engineering

Eucalyptus with pea genes
A partnership between Esalq and Cia. Suzano prepares a genetically modified plant that will develop more cellulose
By Suzel TunesENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
X-ray of pollution in Campinas
Unicamp researcher detects the presence of metal in water, the air and in effluents