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Jhudeza Muhammad

The future is disappearing: How humanity is falling short of its grand technological pr... - 1 views

What I find most interesting about typical visions of the future isn't all the fanciful and borderline magical technology that hasn't been invented yet, but rather how much of it actually already e...

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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

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Margaret Koyal

The Scientific Method: Science Research and Human Knowledge by The Koyal Group Info Mag - 1 views

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The Koyal Group Info Mag Scientific Method: Science Research and Human Knowledge

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  • Margaret Koyal on 27 Aug 14
     
    Science research is a rich mine of valuable knowledge if one knows how to go about it with care and precision. As in all scientific endeavours, there is a system to follow whether one is trying to solve a simple problem such as how to kill garden weeds or improving on Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Even before the advent of the Internet and the unlimited amount of knowledge and information we have available in a matter of seconds, research has generally been misunderstood as a simple process of going to the library (Googling, for most of us today) and getting the data one needs to make a report or "thesis". Unfortunately, this is nothing but a single step in the whole process of scientific research. Academics will call this data-gathering or collating observations. The purpose of scientific research is to observe physical phenomena and to describe them in their operation or functions. The essential question is WHY. Why do things behave as they do? We can predict some things because it is how things are supposed to behave; but we want to know the causes of such phenomena. Discovering the causes through our research, we can then explain these things and use the knowledge to our advantage in many practical ways. That is, we can then build ships that can carry as many people as we can or explain that the moon, like the apple, is falling into the Earth because it is subject to the force of gravitation. Why it never crashes into the Earth is another question which Newton, fortunately, had to settle for us. Science research or what others would call the Scientific Method requires several steps to be considered one. Let us look at them with simple examples for the beginner: 1. Basic or general questions about a phenomenon Sometimes, it all starts with a casual observation followed by a curious question. W
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
Katy Hill

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    The Koyal Group Info Mag on Unusual square ice discovered The surprising discovery of "square ice" which forms at room temperature was made by an international team of researchers last week. The study was published in Nature by a team of scientists from UK and Germany led by Andre Geim of University of Manchester and G. Algara-Siller of University of Ulm. The accompanying review article was done by Alan Soper of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in UK. "We didn't expect to find square ice ... We found there is something strange in terms of water going through [nanochannels]. It's going too fast. And you can't explain that by just imagining a very thin layer of liquid. Liquids do not behave in that way. The important thing to realize is that it is ice in the sense of a crystallized structure, it's not ice in the familiar sense in that it's something cold and from which you have to protect yourself," said Professor Irina Grigorieva, one of the researchers. To study the molecular structure of water inside a transparent nanoscale capillary, the team used electron microscopy. This enabled them to view individual water molecules, especially because the nano-capillary was created from graphene which was one atom thick and would not impair the electron imaging. Graphene was also chosen because it has unusual properties like conducting electricity and extreme strength. It's a 2D form of carbon that once rolled up in cylinders will form a carbon nanotube, a material, which according to The Koyal Group Info Mag, is a subject of further study because of its unusual strength. The scientists themselves were admittedly surprised at finding out that small square-shaped ice crystals formed at room temperature where the graphene capillaries are narrow (3 atomic layers of water at most). The water molecules formed into square lattices arranged in neat rows -- an arrangement that is uncharacteristic for the element that is known for forming consistent triangular structures
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
Lewis Sean

Science Breakthroughs The Koyal Group InfoMag News Starwatch: The European Extremely La... - 0 views

Our image shows an artist's impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT, whose 39-metre aperture puts it in line to be the world's largest optical-infrared telescope. Being built...

Science Breakthroughs The Koyal Group InfoMag News Starwatch: European Extremely Large Telescope

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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

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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
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
Margaret Koyal

Physicist (and Star - 0 views

Physicist (and Star Trek expert) Lawrence Krauss talks about the unpredictability of the future. The Koyal Group Info Mag Articles - Lawrence Krauss is a busy man. A theoretical physicist and cosmo...

The Koyal Group Info Mag articles Sci-Fi Cool Flying Cars Life on Mars Real Science is Cooler

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Sci-Fi Is Cool (Flying Cars! Life on Mars!)-But Real Science is Cooler - 1 views

Physicist (and Star Trek expert) Lawrence Krauss talks about the unpredictability of the future.   The Koyal Group Info Mag Articles - Lawrence Krauss is a busy man. A theoretical physicist an...

The Koyal Group Info Mag articles Sci-Fi Cool Flying Cars Life on Mars Real Science is Cooler

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The Koyal Group Info Mag Articles: 30,000 year-old giant virus found in Siberia - 1 views

A new type of giant virus called "Pithovirus" has been discovered in the frozen ground of extreme north-eastern Siberia by researchers from the Information Génomique et Structurale laboratory (CN...

The Koyal Group Info Mag articles 30 000 year-old giant virus found in Siberia

started by Margaret Koyal on 06 Mar 14 no follow-up yet
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group Info Mag on Unusual square ice discovered - 1 views

The surprising discovery of "square ice" which forms at room temperature was made by an international team of researchers last week. The study was published in Nature by a team of scientists from ...

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started by Margaret Koyal on 31 Mar 15 no follow-up yet
Kathalina Gil

Info Mag Koyal Group DNA Discovery Reveals Surprising Dolphin Origins - 1 views

Info Mag Koyal Group DNA Discovery Reveals Surprising Dolphin Origins A well-known dolphin species, the clymene dolphin, arose from mating between two separate and distinct dolphin species, rep...

Info Mag Koyal Group DNA Discovery Reveals Surprising Dolphin Origins

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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

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