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The Koyal Group Info Mag News: A Virus found in camels - 3 views

Google Plus: Evidence is mounting against camels as leading suspects in a deadly mystery that's claimed more than 100 lives in the Middle East. The biological supervillain is the virus causing MER...

The Koyal Group Info Mag News A Virus found in camels

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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

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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

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The Koyal Group InfoMag News: First standardized way to measure stars - 1 views

The same way we need values to measure everything from temperature to time, astronomers have now developed a new stellar scale as a "ruler" to help them classify and compare data on star discoverie...

The Koyal Group InfoMag News First standardized way to measure stars

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The Koyal Group InfoMag News: NASA prepares to capture asteroid, drag it into Earth's o... - 1 views

What is the goal for the Asteroid Redirect Mission? Through the Asteroid Redirect Mission, NASA will identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a stable orbit around the moon, which astronauts ...

The Koyal Group InfoMag News NASA prepares to capture asteroid drag it into Earth's orbit

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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

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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

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
Chris Blake

Koyal InfoMag: Ebola - Faith Trumps Science - 1 views

When the Black Death was raging in Elizabethan London, some terrified citizens sought to assuage the Plague. The Queen herself ordered that anyone leaving London would be hanged. As in times past, ...

Koyal InfoMag Ebola: Faith Trumps Science

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Ashley Perry

The Koyal Group Info Mag Scientists got it wrong on gravitational waves - 1 views

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    It was announced in headlines worldwide as one of the biggest scientific discoveries for decades, sure to garner Nobel prizes. But now it looks likely that the alleged evidence of both gravitational waves and ultra-fast expansion of the universe in the big bang (called inflation) has literally turned to dust. Last March, a team using a telescope called Bicep2 at the South Pole claimed to have read the signatures of these two elusive phenomena in the twisting patterns of the cosmic microwave background radiation: the afterglow of the big bang. But this week, results from an international consortium using a space telescope called Planck show that Bicep2's data is likely to have come not from the microwave background but from dust scattered through our own galaxy. Some will regard this as a huge embarrassment, not only for the Bicep2 team but for science itself. Already some researchers have criticised the team for making a premature announcement to the press before their work had been properly peer reviewed.
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The Koyal Group Info Mag Marijuana and Your Health: What 20 Years of Research Reveals - 1 views

People who drive under the influence of marijuana double their risk of being in a car crash, and about one in 10 daily marijuana users becomes dependent on the drug, according to a new review. Mar...

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Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group Info Mag News │Climate change producing less-nutritious food - 1 views

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The Koyal Group Info Mag News Climate change producing less nutritious food

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  • Margaret Koyal on 02 Jun 14
     
    A study from a project co-chaired by former 1st District congressman Doug Bereuter says climate change threatens to undermine not only how much food can be grown but also the quality of that food, as altered weather patterns lead to a less desirable harvest. Crops grown by many of the nation's farmers have a lower nutritional content than they once did, according to the report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Research indicates that higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reduced the protein content in wheat, for example. And the International Rice Research Institute has warned that the quality of rice available to consumers will decline as temperatures rise, the report noted. The council has been examining the effects of climate change on food for several months as part of a project co-chaired by former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and former Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb., president emeritus of the Asia Foundation.
Margaret Koyal

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Koyal Group Info Mag News Charged building material could make the renewable grid a reality

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  • Margaret Koyal on 01 Jun 14
     
    What if your cell phone didn't come with a battery? Imagine, instead, if the material from which your phone was built was a battery. The promise of strong load-bearing materials that can also work as batteries represents something of a holy grail for engineers. And in a letter published online in Nano Letters last week, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University describes what it says is a breakthrough in turning that dream into an electrocharged reality. The researchers etched nanopores into silicon layers, which were infused with a polyethylene oxide-ionic liquid composite and coated with an atomically thin layer of carbon. In doing so, they created small but strong supercapacitor battery systems, which stored electricity in a solid electrolyte, instead of using corrosive chemical liquids found in traditional batteries.
Margaret Koyal

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The Koyal Group Info Mag News breakthrough shows how DNA edited correct genetic diseases

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  • Margaret Koyal on 31 May 14
     
    An international team of scientists has made a major step forward in our understanding of how enzymes 'edit' genes, paving the way for correcting genetic diseases in patients. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Münster and the Lithuanian Institute of Biotechnology have observed the process by which a class of enzymes called CRISPR - pronounced 'crisper' - bind and alter the structure of DNA. The results, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) today, provide a vital piece of the puzzle if these genome editing tools are ultimately going to be used to correct genetic diseases in humans. CRISPR enzymes were first discovered in bacteria in the 1980s as an immune defence used by bacteria against invading viruses. Scientists have more recenty shown that one type of CRISPR enzyme - Cas9 - can be used to edit the human genome - the complete set of genetic information for humans. Did you know?? Blood Test Has Potential to Predict Alzheimer's
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group InfoMag News about Open Access on ScienceOpen - 1 views

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The Koyal Group InfoMag News Open access revolutionizing science growing research market online ScienceOpen

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  • Margaret Koyal on 13 May 14
     
    More and more scientists are publishing their results online. And as a result, it's becoming easier to link to new knowledge. A Berlin-based platform called ScienceOpen wants to tap into that. "It's really important for me that everyone gets immediate access to the wonderful work that scientists do," says Stephanie Dawson. The Yale-educated biologist is the managing director for ScienceOpen, a research platform that went live this week. "Access to this research is like a human right," Dawson told DW. "After all, it's all research funded with taxpayers' money." But it's not only about who pays - it's also about what gets done with the research, and who is allowed to work with it. Then there are the traditional publishers of science research. They criticize online open access journals and portals for lacking editorial quality control. It hasn't stopped the trend towards open access in Europe, though.
Margaret Koyal

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The Koyal Group InfoMag News Scientists Letters to DNA's Alphabet Hope and Fear

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  • Margaret Koyal on 15 May 14
     
    Scientists reported Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life - creating an organism with an expanded artificial genetic code in its DNA. The accomplishment might eventually lead to organisms that can make medicines or industrial products that cells with only the natural genetic code cannot. The scientists behind the work at the Scripps Research Institute have already formed a company to try to use the technique to develop new antibiotics, vaccines and other products, though a lot more work needs to be done before this is practical. The work also gives some support to the concept that life can exist elsewhere in the universe using genetics different from those on Earth. "This is the first time that you have had a living cell manage an alien genetic alphabet," said Steven A. Benner, a researcher in the field at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla., who was not involved in the new work. But the research, published online by the journal Nature, is bound to raise safety concerns and questions about whether humans are playing God. The new paper could intensify calls for greater regulation of the budding field known as synthetic biology, which involves the creation of biological systems intended for specific purposes.
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