Innovation

Aeronautic engineering

EMBRAER’s flying car passes decisive test

Startup Eve Air Mobility makes advances in its development of a Brazilian flying car

By Redação

Energy

Brazilian researchers develop sodium-based battery

Sodium offers an alternative to lithium for electric vehicle batteries

By Domingos Zaparolli

VETERINARY SCIENCE

App helps recognize pain in animals

Free tool created at UNESP determines level of suffering and advises on the need for analgesic treatment

By Suzel Tunes

AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY

New capabilities for space exploration

More Brazilian companies are investing in locally developed nanosatellites for commercial applications

By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade

Environment

New tools to track forest products

In efforts to curb deforestation in the Amazon, environmental agencies, universities, and NGOs are developing technologies to trace the origins of wood

By Tiago Jokura

FUNDING

Foreign boost

How science and technology offices linked to the United States Armed Forces fund basic research projects in Brazil

By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade

INDICATORS

A new metric for growth

A policy working group proposes a new metric for innovation impact based on top job creators

By Fabrício Marques

OPTICS

Sharper images

US company launches a system developed at UNICAMP to improve light collection performance in scanning tunneling microscopes

By Suzel Tunes

ASTROPHYSICS

Super telescope gets a funding boost

Giant Magellan Telescope to receive US$205 million in fresh investment, including US$5 million from FAPESP

By Marcos Pivetta

FAPESP

Five new RIDCs

FAPESP announces five new Research, Innovation, and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs)

By Redação

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Scientists design Wi-Fi-connected intracranial pressure sensor

The new device, still under development, will send real-time data to the smartphones of the medical team

By Domingos Zaparolli

Materials engineering

Bioactive glass could be used to treat bone cancer

Composite material has potential to simultaneously kill cancer cells and regenerate bone

By Suzel Tunes

INTERVIEW

Andrés Roldán: Scientific and civic vocation

Parque Explora in Medellín promotes urban transformation

By Christina Queiroz

Cover

Technological innovation increases autonomy

The world is experiencing a boom in patents for equipment and services designed to provide functional skills to people with disabilities

By Domingos Zaparolli

Entrepreneurship

New products for rural property owners

Startups develop food and improve agricultural management and sales, according to EMBRAPA analysis

By Sarah Schmidt

Interview

Luciana Santos: We need new arrangements

The new minister of the MCTI talks about plans to recover public funding for research and how to combat gender inequality in science

By Fabrício Marques

Cover

ChatGPT ushers in a new era in human-computer interaction

Software promises to reinvent everything from online search engines to voice assistants, with a multitude of ethical implications

By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade

Cover

System designed to detect manipulated images in scientific articles

Artificial intelligence can both generate fake images and help to identify them

By Fabrício Marques

RESEARCH ITINERARIES

New latex technology in the hands of a São Paulo native

Chemist Juliane Pereira dos Santos talks about industrial scientific production

By Aline Novais de Almeida

Energy

Açaí pits bear new fruit

Previously discarded waste is now being used to make cosmetics, paper, and plastics, as well as providing an alternative energy source

By Sarah Schmidt

BIOECONOMY

Female entrepreneurs create new products in the Amazon

Companies combine research, technology, and innovation to gain market share and make advances in the region

By Sarah Schmidt

COMPUTER SCIENCE

The legacy of the Ugly Duckling

The first Brazilian computer was developed 50 years ago at USP’s Polytechnic School and changed the teaching and national industry of technology

By Domingos Zaparolli

Technology

Simplicity drives frugal innovation

Developed in collaboration with users, frugal innovation is becoming better known, leading to more efficient and cost-effective products

By Carlos Fioravanti

INDICATORS

Indicator links company growth to ability to innovate

Group proposes methodology for measuring the impacts of innovation based on the performance of businesses that create many jobs

By Fabrício Marques

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Artificial intelligence in healthcare

AI-based technologies are already being used in medicine, but there are hurdles still to overcome before they can be incorporated on a larger scale in Brazil

By Domingos Zaparolli

Biology

Fire – and microbe-proof curtains

New hospital curtain material kills viruses, bacteria, and fungi, as well as being fire retardant

By Redação

INTERVIEW

Rico Malvar: A Brazilian inventor at Microsoft

Author of more than 120 patents, the engineer from Rio de Janeiro ran the multinational company's main research laboratory and was their head scientist

By Yuri Vasconcelos