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LatinNews Daily - 15 November 2018

In brief: Brazil

* Brazil’s outgoing president, Michel Temer, has inaugurated a new US$482m particle accelerator facility. The ‘Sirius’ accelerator is the largest scientific facility in Brazil and places the country among the handful of countries that can boast a particle accelerator. In inaugurating the structure during a ceremony in São Paulo state, President Temer said that it serves as “proof that Brazil is taking giant steps towards its scientific development”. Meanwhile Temer’s science & technology minister, Gilberto Kassab, who also attended the ceremony, said that the Sirius accelerator would allow Brazilian scientists to better study the physical structure of all kinds of things such as plants, metals, rocks, and even proteins and viruses. Kassab added that this could help scientists to come up with new and better ways to promote agriculture, extract fossil fuels, and even treat and combat diseases.

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