Today's geographers seek to see beyond the landscape. They are attentive to the flow of helicopters and executive jets that symbolize the upper circle of the economy, to the new cities that are born due to the installation of large industries along the highways, to the agricultural frontiers that expand and inspire proposals for the creation of more federal states , to popular movements that resist a cultural industry that imposes tastes and customs, to the role of universities within the scenario of modernity and socioeconomic contradictions. Professor Márcio Antonio Cataia, from the Geosciences Institute (IG), talks about the research carried out by Geoplan (Geographical Investigations and Territorial Planning Laboratory) to understand the new order that is behind this apparently confusing landscape.

Researchers from the Institute of Chemistry managed to demonstrate for the first time that splash, a phenomenon produced by the impact of a drop against a liquid surface, can be applied to the study of reducing hydrodynamic friction. The results of the study, which was coordinated by professor Edvaldo Sabadini, were published in the journal Experiments in Fluids.

Students Marcio Rogério Juliato and Daniel Ferber, both from the Computing Institute (IC), developed the prototype of a mouse to be used by people who have motor problems. The equipment has more features and is easier to operate than those available on the market. The invention was patented.

Doctoral thesis by researcher Karin dos Santos reveals the discovery of 16 rare species of trees in fragments of remaining forests in the Campinas districts of Sousas and Joaquim Egídio. None of them had been cataloged in São Paulo. The study is part of the Biota-Fapesp Program.

Researchers at the Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics (IFGW) are studying the various aspects of nanomagnets, tiny magnets that have wide application in industry and are already part of people's daily lives. The objective is to conceive new ideas, processes and models that may eventually have future applications.