Innovation

Agriculture

Bees for hire

Startup rents out bees to improve agricultural productivity

By Tiago Jokura

COVID-19

Oxygen supply

Brazilian startups offer new ways of monitoring essential medical supplies for patients with respiratory failure

By Yuri Vasconcelos

COVID-19

First DNA-based vaccine

India has developed and approved the first COVID-19 vaccine based on DNA technology

By Eduardo Geraque

Data

RISB and the fourth industrial revolution

Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the means of production through coordinated use of the information generated and managed by production monitoring systems

By Redação

Obituary

Science administrator

Marco Antonio Raupp led and helped establish important research institutions in Brazil

By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade

Aerial robotics

Out of sight

Drone manufacturer in São Paulo first in Brazil authorized to make flights higher than 120 meters above the ground and as far as 30 kilometers from the takeoff point

By Suzel Tunes

Development

Innovation enablers

Limited public and private investment in strategic and potentially disruptive technologies threatens competitiveness in Brazilian industry

By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade

Cover

INPE under pressure

Brazil’s most important space research center celebrates its 60^th anniversary with a reduced budget, research projects facing uncertain futures, and major challenges ahead

By Yuri Vasconcelos

COVID-19

Universal vaccine

Researchers are trying to develop a broad-spectrum vaccine capable of protecting people against all types of coronaviruses and their variants

By Frances Jones

COVID-19

Biosensors detect the coronavirus

Researchers have developed a biosensor that detects the novel coronavirus and can be incorporated into masks and clothing

By Redação

Innovation

Wireless pacemaker dissolves in the body

Researchers have developed a wireless, battery-free pacemaker

By Redação

space tourism

Billionaires initiate the age of space tourism

By Redação

HEALTH

Digital diagnosis

Software capable of identifying skin cancer with greater than 90% accuracy

By Domingos Zaparolli

COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS

Connections for innovation

Universities obtaining more patents through partnerships with private companies

By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade

LEGISLATION

Boost for startups

Government passes bill to encourage investment in small innovative companies in Brazil

By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade

Innovation

Earth-controlled temperature

A technology developed at the São Carlos School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo uses heat exchange between the subsoil and the foundation piles to acclimatize a building's interior

By Redação

Careers

High speed

Brazilian scientist sets world record during fiber optic connection studies

By Sidnei Santos de Oliveira

Neurology

Epileptic seizure warning

São Paulo startup develops wearable device designed to identify seizures half an hour before they occur

By Frances Jones

INNOVATION

Start, fall down, get up, start over

This describes the lives of entrepreneurs facing continuous unforeseen events on the road to success

By Carlos Fioravanti

Tecnology

Writing with the mind

A brain-to-computer interface has allowed a 65-year-old man paralyzed from the neck down to quickly write text on a computer screen by imagining himself writing the letters by hand

By Redação

Data

Invention patents filed by universities in São Paulo

Percentage of all invention patent applications filed with the Brazilian Patent Office by legal entities in São Paulo that were submitted by higher education institutions, per quadrennium

By Redação

Interview

Ivair Gontijo: On Martian time

A Brazilian engineer is one of those responsible for monitoring NASA's robotic jeep Perseverance, as it searches for traces of life on Earth's closest neighbor

By Yuri Vasconcelos

Aviation

Turbulence in the air

Embraer banks on its successful aircraft portfolio and investment in innovation to navigate one of the most difficult chapters in its history

By Yuri Vasconcelos

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Transgenics under the magnifying glass

Over the last 25 years, CTNBio has approved more than 150 genetically modified products for use in Brazil

By Fabrício Marques

Interview

Luiz Bevilacqua: Bridges to interdisciplinarity

The scientist behind COPPE and the educational model used at the Federal University of ABC shares how the development of engineering research has impacted Brazil

By Fabrício Marques

COVID-19

Patent waivers under debate

Suspending intellectual property rights for vaccines needs to overcome technology and production hurdles if it is to be successful

By Domingos Zaparolli

Energy

Energy generated by vibration

Spanish startup Vortex Bladeless plans to start testing its innovative technique of generating wind energy from the vibrations of a vertical carbon fiber rod later this year

By Redação