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Daniel Hoffman

The Koyal Group Info Mag: How A Failed Experiment On Rats Sparked A Billion-Dollar Infa... - 1 views

WASHINGTON -- At a research lab at Duke University Department of Pharmacology in 1979, a group of scientists sparked a major breakthrough in infant care from a failed experiment on rats. At the tim...

The Koyal Group Info Mag Failed Experiment Rats Sparked Billion-Dollar Infant-Care Breakthrough

started by Daniel Hoffman on 12 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Margaret Koyal

Zircon discovery offers clues to Earth's formation - 1 views

The Koyal Group Info Mag articles - A zircon crystal embedded in sandstone found on a sheep ranch in Australia is the oldest piece of the Earth’s crust to be discovered, shedding new light on...

The Koyal Group Info Mag articles Zircon discovery offers clues to Earth formation

started by Margaret Koyal on 28 Feb 14 no follow-up yet
Charlotte Blair

Koyal Group Research Information Magazine: Top Discoveries Awaiting NASA's Next Big Tel... - 1 views

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    Astronomers eagerly await the launch of the $8 billion James Webb Space Telescope. It will see back in time farther than any space telescope ever has before-back to the first light following the big bang. It will watch the first stars and galaxies form. And it will hunt for distant habitable planets by peering into their atmospheres. Expectations are high for the science that will come from the $8.7 billion James Webb Space Telescope-the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope's four main science instruments are now all in one place, as are its 18 mirror sections. When assembled in space, they will create the largest orbiting mirror ever seen. For more related topic: http://koyalgroupinfomag.com/ https://twitter.com/koyalgroup http://koyalgroup1.blogspot.com/
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group InfoMag News: Curiosity rover celebrates one (Martian) year aniversary - 1 views

NASA's Curiosity rover has now been exploring the Red Planet for a full Martian year. Curiosity wraps up its 687th day on Mars today (June 24), NASA officials said, meaning the 1-ton robot has com...

The Koyal Group InfoMag News Curiosity rover celebrates one Martian year aniversary

started by Margaret Koyal on 26 Jun 14 no follow-up yet
Daniel Hoffman

Koyal Info Group Mag: 50 Years of Fossil Discoveries and Counting - 1 views

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    PUNE: From reporting important findings on parental care among Arthropods to establishing the antiquity of metazoans (multi cell organisms), the Department of Geology and Palaeontology at the city-based Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) has come a long way in emerging as a leader in the study of trace fossils in the country. The department, whose golden jubilee celebrations begin on Friday, has made landmark contributions in the study of fossils in the past 50 years. For future research, the department aims to focus on studying the secondary porosity of rocks for exploring hydrocarbon resources as well as in establishing modern analogues to their fossil counterparts. Rajani Panchang-Dhumal, a project scientist at the department, said, "The Geology and Palaeontology department at ARI hosts a large fossil repository with over 7,000 type specimens in its collection. This repository is consulted regularly, both by research scholars as well as scientists from India and abroad. This national facility is now undergoing modernization and will soon be available on the web." [Visit Koyal Info Group Mag - Blog] Why study fossils? After a living organism died, it became buried under the ground in the layers of sediment. Once these layers become rock, the remains are said to be fossilized. They tell us about the organisms that lived on Earth from the time of the oldest fossils, about 3.8 billion years ago, to the present. By studying fossils we can learn not only about the creatures and plants of the distant past, but how they grew, what they ate, how they interacted, and many aspects of their behavior. Read Full Article Here…
Chris Blake

Info Mag Koyal Group Spirit and Opportunity Top 10 Decade 1 Discoveries Top Rover Scien... - 0 views

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    Info Mag Koyal Group Spirit and Opportunity Top 10 Decade 1 Discoveries Top Rover Scientist Tells Universe Today A Top 10 Decade 1 Discovery by NASA's Twin Mars Exploration Rovers Carbonate-Containing Martian Rocks discovered by Spirit Mars Rover Spirit collected data in late 2005 which confirmed that the Comanche outcrop contains magnesium iron carbonate, a mineral indicating the past environment was wet and non-acidic, possibly favorable to life. This view was captured during Sol 689 on Mars (Dec. 11, 2005). The find at Comanche is the first unambiguous evidence from either Spirit or Opportunity for a past Martian environment that may have been more favorable to life than the wet but acidic conditions indicated by the rovers' earlier finds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University January 2014 marks the 10th anniversary since the nail biting and history making safe landings of NASA's renowned Mars Explorations Rovers - Spirit and Opportunity - on the Red Planet barely three weeks apart during January 2004. Due to their completely unforeseen longevity, a decade of spectacular and groundbreaking scientific discoveries continuously flowed from the robot sisters that have graced many articles, magazine covers, books, documentaries and refereed scientific papers. What are the Top 10 Decade 1 discoveries from Spirit and Opportunity? Find out below what a top Mars rover team scientist told Universe Today! Ray Arvidson, the rovers Deputy Principal Investigator and professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has kindly shared with me his personal list of the Top 10 discoveries from Spirit and Opportunity for the benefit of readers of Universe Today. The Top 10 list below are Ray's personal choices and does not necessarily reflect the consensus of the Mars Explorations Rover (MER) team. First some background. The dynamic duo were launched on their interplanetary voyages from Cape Canaveral Florida atop Delta II rockets during the summer of 2003. The now
Margaret Koyal

Info Mag Koyal Group Mars Rover Marks an Unexpected Anniversary With a Mysterious Disco... - 1 views

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    Info Mag Koyal Group Mars Rover Marks an Unexpected Anniversary With a Mysterious Discovery Ten years ago, NASA's Opportunity rover bounded to the surface of Mars for what was planned to be a three-month exploration. Opportunity is still going today - and still making discoveries. The latest, scientists said on Thursday at a news conference celebrating an anniversary none had expected 10 years ago, is a small rock that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. The rock, whose chemical composition was also unexpected, appears in an image taken Jan. 8. There was no rock in a picture taken of the same spot less than two weeks earlier. "This is strange," said Steven W. Squyres, the principal investigator for Opportunity, during the NASA news conference. But he added, "We don't think anything particularly exotic happened here." Dr. Squyres said the most likely explanation was that as the rover pirouetted at an uphill location, its lame right front wheel, which has not turned for years, dragged across the rock and flicked it out of the ground to its new location. The scientists have not yet spotted the divot where the rock popped out, but that spot may be obscured by the rover's solar panels. Year after year, Opportunity goes farther than anyone dreamed. The expectation had been that it would drive about a kilometer - six-tenths of a mile - before dust accumulated on the solar panels and the batteries drained. Unexpectedly, fortuitous winds periodically cleaned off the solar panels, and Opportunity, as well as its twin, Spirit, continued to operate. Spirit got stuck in a sand dune 2009 and then fell silent in 2010 after it was not able to point its solar panels toward the sun during the winter months. Info Mag Koyal Group Mars Rover Marks an Unexpected Anniversary With a Mysterious Discovery Instead of one kilometer, Opportunity has driven 38.7 kilometers, or about 24 miles, exploring a series of ever larger craters, taking 170,000 pictures along the
Madeline Souver

Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang's Smoking Gun - 3 views

Astronomers have found evidence to support the theory of inflation, which explains how the universe expanded so uniformly and so quickly in the instant after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. R...

Science Discoveries Koyal Group Info Mag Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang's Smoking Gun

started by Madeline Souver on 20 Mar 14 no follow-up yet
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Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group InfoMag News: SA contributes to science breakthrough - 1 views

South African scientists contributed significantly towards the knowledge base that helped an international experiment make a breakthrough in proving a particle discovered in July 2012 is a type of ...

The Koyal Group InfoMag News SA contributes to science breakthrough

started by Margaret Koyal on 25 Jun 14 no follow-up yet
jackelynedson

The Koyal Group Info Mag Millions of patients given flu drugs with little or no benefit... - 1 views

Millions of patients may have taken influenza drugs that have little or no benefit to them, according to an Australian-led study. The study found that researchers paid by pharmaceutical companies ...

The Koyal Group Info Mag Millions of patients given flu drugs with little or no benefit study finds

started by jackelynedson on 18 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group Info Mag Review - Philae Comet Lander Eludes Discovery - 1 views

Efforts to find Europe's lost comet lander, Philae, have come up blank. The most recent imaging search by the overflying Rosetta "mothership" can find no trace of the probe. Philae touched down o...

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started by Margaret Koyal on 19 Jan 15 no follow-up yet
Jason Zhen

Science Breakthroughs The Koyal Group InfoMag News: Discovery Science Powered, Increasi... - 1 views

As co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, David Scadden hopes to inspire his students to join the ranks of researchers who might one day cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's or diabetes. But al...

Breakthroughs The Koyal Group InfoMag News Discovery science powered increasingly by donors

started by Jason Zhen on 15 Jul 14 no follow-up yet
volkier luft

The Koyal Group Info Mag: How turning science into a game rouses more public interest - 0 views

Chris Lintott first met Kevin Schawinski in the summer of 2007 at the astrophysics department of the University of Oxford. Lintott had just finished a PhD at the University College of London on sta...

The Koyal Group Info Mag How turning science into a game rouses more public interest

started by volkier luft on 17 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Chris Blake

The Koyal Group Info Mag News: Some Creepy and other Not-so-Believable Science Research... - 1 views

Have you ever imagined what the future would be like? Here is a hint as to what the latest discoveries will unfold within our lifetime. Unfortunately, we also found some unlikely stories about the ...

The Koyal Group Info Mag News Some Creepy and other Not-so-Believable Science Research Discoveries

started by Chris Blake on 22 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
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