Physics
A GATHERING OF NOTABLES
Five Nobel Laureates at a Single Symposium
Event honors American physicist and brings together a quintet of Laureates
Technology Beverages
Light-infused beer
A light source accelerates yeast metabolism and increases production
Fluid Dynamics
Tension Under Control
Pressure at the interface between oil and water could facilitate oil extraction
Biophysics
Molecular cleansing
Study reveals the structure of proteins that eliminate excess hemoglobin
Data and projects
Recent thematic and Young Investigator projects
Projects contracted between August and September 2012
snores
The uncomfortable sound of apnea
New method facilitates the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea
Ask the researchers
Ask the researchers
How does the laser spectrometer on the Mars Curiosity rover work?
Nobel
Meeting of Nobel laureates
City brings together laureates to inspire new generations of scientists
Ask the researchers
Ask the researchers
Why does beer sometimes freeze when it is taken out of the freezer?
Recognition
Laser on nanotubes
UFMG professor gets international prize for contribution to nanoscience
Pierre Auger Observatory
Cosmic Rays, Still an Enigma
Analysis of highest-energy particles moves forward
Information Technology
Thinner Wires
Optical fibers will be able to connect circuits in the computers of the future
SEMICONDUCTORS
The memory of the future
Ferroelectric film may replace ferromagnetic films in computers
Higgs boson
An expanding jigsaw puzzle
Boson might reveal first clues to new elementary particle physics
By Ricardo Zorzetto and Igor Zolnerkevic
celestial bodies
Eta Carinae: more than an eclipse
Two phenomena cause periodical blackout of the star Eta Carinae
Complex networks
The order of scarcity
Reservoir pattern in Ceará may help to face drought and floods
What is it?
What is it?
Geographic North and magnetic North
Cover
More than an eclipse
Collapse of stellar winds prolongs the cyclical blackout of the Eta Carinae
Higgs boson
The mass of the Higgs boson
First evidence appear of the hypothetical particle's existence
Extraterrestrial life
Tiny, but hefty
Microorganisms invisible to the naked eye can survive interplanetary trips
Information technology
The new wave of qubits
Systems could have a quantum feature useful for computer sciences