Discovery
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But part of the discrepancy also reflects the
discovery
of missing assets, some of which may have originated in the reinvestment of overseas income.
Achieving that goal requires neither a technological breakthrough nor a scientific
discovery.
Essentially all phenomena in chemistry find explanations in the quantum atom, while chemistry and physics undergird molecular biology, which, since the
discovery
of DNA in the 1950s, dominates modern biology.
Oil prices quadrupled following the first oil embargo in 1973, and the
discovery
of large reserves in the 1970s underpinned a massive increase in Soviet output.
Thus, the role of the market in price
discovery
is inextricable from that of the government.
Meanwhile, given that many emerging economies have incomplete or immature PRIs, their influence over market-price
discovery
is relatively weak.
With the
discovery
of genetic recombination in viruses that penetrate rapidly reproducing bacteria, it became possible to measure variation in offspring much more minutely, and thus to dissect the fine structure of a gene.
The invention in the mid-1970's of technology to clone and sequence DNA opened new vistas for research, and its use on humans and other mammals has been enormously successful in terms of scientific
discovery.
Climate research dates back at least two centuries, to Joseph Fourier’s
discovery
of the effects of greenhouse gases on planetary climates; in 1859, John Tyndall demonstrated in his laboratory which gases cause this effect.
The official apology made in 1993 was prompted by a Japanese historian’s
discovery
of documents showing that the Imperial Japanese Army had been directly involved in setting up, though not necessarily in running, what were known as “comfort stations.”
While this competitive mentality is not new in science – the seventeenth-century mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz spent more than a decade fighting bitterly for credit for the
discovery
of calculus – it has intensified to the point that it is impeding progress.
To Err is ScienceUntil now,
discovery
was often considered the main goal of medical science.
But nowadays
discovery
is almost too easy.
If all this turmoil weren’t enough, the
discovery
of avian flu in the northern provinces further undermines political stability.
The
discovery
is the result of a strategic policy maintained through successive Brazilian administrations, something unusual in Latin America.
This is roughly the journey of
discovery
that the American biotechnologist J. Craig Venter and his colleagues have been taking for the past two decades – only their marvelous devices are not archeological remains, but living organisms.
The cycle of fundamental discovery, technological development, revelation of undesirable consequences, and public aversion appears unbreakable.
They point to the savings available from energy efficiency, and to the market opportunities generated by clean-energy technologies as the processes of learning and
discovery
take hold.
The Netherlands, after its
discovery
of North Sea gas and oil, found itself plagued with growing unemployment and workforce disability (many of those who could not get jobs found disability benefits to be more generous than unemployment benefits.)
Others assert, with some level of official encouragement, that every scientific
discovery
or achievement – including jet aircraft and atomic weaponry – was made in India during the Vedic age.
As is typical in science, each new
discovery
in evolutionary biology raises as many questions as it answers.
That view was challenged by the
discovery
of DNA.
Our knowledge of the structure and function of proteins, for example, has been greatly expanded through the
discovery
of dynamic folding processes.
When molecules entered the scientific understanding of life with the
discovery
of DNA, biology climbed one step up the scale, to chemistry.
Rous won a Nobel for his discovery, but not until 1966.
In today’s world, Pasteur would be thrown in jail for practicing as an unlicensed physician and not following proper clinical-practice standards; but we can all be thankful for his
discovery.
This spring marked the 100th anniversary of the
discovery
of superconductivity – the ability of materials to carry electrical current with no loss.
Thus, Swiss researchers caused excitement in 1986 by announcing the
discovery
of superconductivity in an oxide of copper at twice the temperature of the previous record holder.
As Time magazine proclaimed in May 1987, with the
discovery
of these so-called “cuprates,” the superconducting revolution had begun.
Given the vast number of combinations of elements that can form compounds, there is a good chance that better superconductors await our
discovery.
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