discovered

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Researchers discovered that packed rice grains behave in an unusual way under pressure.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

"As a woman rough sleeper, you're far, far less likely to be discovered rough sleeping and that's your route into services, into support, into accommodation," says Lucy Campbell from the Single Homeless Project.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The company developed a metric called “Mean Time to Adapt,” which measures how quickly an organization identifies, triages and fixes vulnerabilities once discovered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

University of Hawaii oceanographer Craig Smith, who discovered the first whale fall in 1987 but was not involved in the new research, told AFP it was "extremely exciting".

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Troll farts, I discovered, are a hundred times smellier than the human kind.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff