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Primary Task Response:Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your research. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. To maximize your learning, select peers who researched chemicals different from the one you researched. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.Science in the NewsNow that you have been learning about science, you may have noticed news articles or online videos on various scientific topics. Science is all around you.Select a news article on a scientific discovery or achievement. This could be the discovery of a new planet or star, a new medical treatment, new findings concerning climate change, or countless other possibilities. If you are not sure where to find a news article, try looking on the Web page for your favorite news source, or use a search engine to look for a specific topic of interest. After selecting a news article and reading it carefully, complete the following:Provide a brief summary of the article.What interested you about the topic?Do you agree or support the discovery or activity presented in your article? Why or why not?Did the author provide references and supporting facts in this article, or were you expected to just accept the findings without support?When reading about science, how important do you feel sources and references are in accepting the findings that are presented?Assignment ObjectivesRecognize major contributions from the sciences to our quality of life.Infer scientific conclusions about real-world scenarios.

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This is about a scientific article which appeared in Nature in October 2015. 
Talking about scientific discovery what more would be better than the Nobel Prize winning 
discovery of developing therapies against parasitic infections. The winners of the prize were 
William C. Campbell, a microbiologist at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey; Satoshi 
Ōmura, a microbiologist at Kitasato University in Japan; and Youyou Tu, a pharmacologist at 
the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing. 
During the late 1970’s Campbell and Omura discovered compounds called 
Avermictins, which had the capacity to kill parasitic round worms. These round worms 
caused infections like river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.

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