History
Pleistocene
Man did not hunt large animals in Brazil
Man did not hunt large animals in Brazil
By Redação
OBITUARY
The victory of a vocation
Jacob Gorender contributed to scholarship on Brazil's history
By Redação
HISTORY
The Empire at the Bottom of the Sea
Documents reveal debate sparked by a shipwreck in Brazil
By Carlos Haag
MEDIA
The sensationalist press and science
Newspaper highlighted technology to overcome Brazilian “backwardness”
By Carlos Haag
MEDIA
The sensationalist press and science
Assis Chateaubriand’s newspaper highlighted technology
By Carlos Haag
GEOLOGY
Why the earth shakes in Brazil
Seismologists propose a new explanation for earthquakes in Brazil
By Igor Zolnerkevic and Ricardo Zorzetto
Paulo Vanzolini
The sage of biodiversity
Zoologist Paulo Vanzolini was one of the brains behind the creation of the FAPESP
By Redação
Cryptography
The Voynich manuscript
Brazilian physicists propose a meaning to the Voynich manuscript
History
Cultural revolution Brazilian style
In the 1950s, culture and politics traveled a two-way street
By Carlos Haag
History
The past that intrudes into the present
Collection compiles articles by historians to a broader audience
By Carlos Haag
History
The patriarch of science
José Bonifácio were marked by the bond between statesman and naturalist
By Carlos Haag
DIPLOMACY
The undesirables
Estado Novo dictatorship concealed a project to “whiten” Brazil
By Carlos Haag
Cover
An Immense Portugal
Portuguese Empire granted freedom to local elites in order to sustain itself
By Carlos Haag
Memory
Under the skies of Bahia
Valentin Stansel’s astronomy observations were mentioned in Newton’s Principia
By Redação
pragmatic dilemma
Between theorems and railways
Debate on positivist mathematics led to pure science in Brazil
By Carlos Haag
Protectionism
An industry in the shadows
The Argentine motion picture industry, unlike the Brazilian, went commercial
By Carlos Haag