Issue # 193 _ March 2012

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The voice of the scientists at Rio+20
How Brazilian research can contribute to the Conference’s decisions on Sustainable Development By

S&T Policy

História da FAPESP IX

The world in a trance

Metropolises have transformed themselves, along with paradigms of research on urban problems

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Human Resources

The meeting of two worlds

Workshops discuss ways to expand the participation of physicists in efforts at innovation in companies

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Science

Insulin resistance

Visceral connections

Changes in the profile of the intestinal microbiota favor the development of diabetes and obesity

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Emerging parasites

Brazilian forms of toxoplasmosis

Local types of encephalitis-causing protozoa are beginning to appear

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Forensic analyses

Skin color written in the DNA

Tests discover racial characteristics without the presence of people

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Environment - atmosphere

The climate equation

Study evaluates the real impact of native and cultivated plants in the Americas on global temperatures

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Information technology

The new wave of qubits

Systems at room temperature could have a quantum feature useful for computer sciences

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Extraterrestrial life

Tiny, but hefty

Organisms invisible to the naked eye are able to survive interplanetary trips

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Obituary

Uninterrupted activity

Chemist Blanka Wladislaw did research and taught classes with the same intensity

Technology

Biofuels

Productive option

Sorghum is planted to produce ethanol during the sugarcane off-season

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Paper industry

Totally white

Small company develops enzyme to bleach pulp without harming the environment

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Water Analysis

Luminescent yeast

Researchers use microorganism to detect hormone in rivers

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Film

State of the art images

System stores and transmits films in ultra high definition

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Humanities

Citizenship

When to stop is moving forward

The cycle of strikes from 1978 to 1992 was crucial for the democratization of Brazil

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Fabrics of history

The clothes that Brazilians wore during the ‘coffee with milk’ part of their history

Old outfits reveal what the First Republic hid beneath its clothes

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A pátria em sons

The man who had to invent a Brazil

Research challenges the view of Villa-Lobos’ work as mere exotic nationalism

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