History
Spices
What do you hunger for?
Eating habits help understand the dynamics of relations in colonial Brazil
By Carlos Haag
Fabrics of history
The clothes that Brazilians wore during the ‘coffee with milk’ part of their history
What the First Republic hid beneath its clothes
Expedition
Science to create a nation
Rondon Commission naturalists helped to formalize scientific research
By Carlos Haag
Archaeology
Silent discourse of the slaves
Remains of Africans slaves were found in the center of Rio de Janeiro
By Redação
Memory
Pragmatic science
The first state laboratory for chemical analyses was established 200 years ago
Year of Chemistry
Science, a (not very) feminine word
Marie Curie is still one of the few women on the list of laureates in the area
Memory
Sailing on familiar seas
Colonial Brazil produced in the 17th century the galleon Padre Eterno
Regional rebellions
The mutineers of the Empire
Popular participation in nineteenth century uprisings greater than thought
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro: Brazil’s observer in the South Atlantic
Historian proposes that the Brasil's formation took place outside its borders
History of FAPESP V
Competition in the sky
FAPESP have helped astronomers and astrophysicists produce science
International Year of Chemistry
Flavors and perfumes
Sweet, bitter and smelly compounds are the main characters in the story
Political science
Civil resistance and dilemmas of culture
Research explores conflicts in the opposition to the military regime
History of FAPESP III
Ecological path
FAPESP has been investing for five decades in biodiversity studies
History of FAPESP II
New paradigms
The Bioq-FAPESP Program boosted biochemistry in the 1970s
Melancholy
Psychology from the pulpit
The colonial roots of understanding the national soul
By Carlos Haag
Jesuits
The man of God in the court of men
Biography shows Father Vieira as a skilled political orator
By Carlos Haag
Memory
Mapping the New World
Astronomers determined latitudes in the Amazon and wrote about the region
History of FAPESP
FAPESP 50 years
On the way to its fiftieth anniversary
FAPESP History I
A laboratory at an orange plantation
From studies of citrus canker to the genome of citrus variegated chlorosis
Memory
A single land
Reinhard Maack found evidence of the origin of continents in Brazil 85 years ago
Laura de Mello e Souza
Laura de Mello e Souza: A country called the past
There is a lack of innovative researchers able to reach the general public
By Carlos Haag