discoveries
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The discoveries of penicillin, radioactivity and weird stars called pulsars all came from odd results that could easily have been dismissed.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
You might have learned as much from the allegory of the emperor’s new clothes or the discoveries of behavioral economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
One of the most famous examples is penicillin, the antibiotic originally obtained from a fungus that transformed the treatment of bacterial infections and became one of the most consequential medical discoveries of the last century.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
This explosion of discoveries has left the field reeling—proof that math will never be the same.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
But it would not be until the early 1940s that a major breakthrough would allow more efficient undersea explorations, discoveries, and excavations in the form of an invention by Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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