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Who knows where the worlds’ gold came from before its discovery in Latin America in the sixteenth century?
The discovery of ancient amphorae has confirmed that India used to import products such as olive oil, wine, and glass from Italy, in exchange for exotic items like ivory and spices.
And Trump, despite feeling invigorated by the discovery, has continued to pursue states, such as New Mexico, that would do him little good in the Electoral College count.
Apocalypse Not NowPRINCETON – Recently, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, located near Geneva at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) – announced that the celebrated discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson was indeed the Higgs boson.
Then, in 1996, Richard Smalley of Rice University was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes, beautiful nanometer-scale carbon structures with remarkable properties and many potential applications.
Achieving gender parity would yield an enormous payoff for scientific discovery.
His concerns appear to have been vindicated by the 20-minute shutdown of trading in New York on May 6, when the stock market completely failed in its most basic function: price discovery between buyers and sellers.
In the United Kingdom, this discovery dates back to 1980, when the Department of Health and Social Security published its Report of the Working Group on Inequalities in Health.
In 2014, the discovery of vast energy reserves in the waters between Cyprus and Israel led some to hope that peace would soon be at hand; but the potential energy bonanza ended up aggravating tensions.
But recent breakthroughs in AI-related technologies do offer enormous potential for positive advances in a range of applications from transportation to education and drug discovery.
What went up in smoke was only the physical manifestation of human knowledge; the desire for discovery and progress remained intact.
By contrast, the Fed doesn’t have to recognize the loss; while free-market advocates might talk about the virtues of market pricing and “price discovery,” the Fed can pretend that nothing has happened.
General Relativity has brought us wormholes, evaporating black holes, and the Big Bang theory; it underlies the discovery that the universe is expanding and that so-called exoplanets are much more common than anybody thought; and it has utterly redefined the way we think of our own place in the universe, ultimately even calling into question whether this universe is the only one.
On the contrary, politics and international law, like the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, have been adapted to enable discovery.
But the recent discovery of massive natural-resource deposits in Kenya and elsewhere should prompt officials to rethink this goal.
But the key development was the discovery of large natural-gas deposits in Burma, which would not be available to an India deemed hostile to the regime.
When American experts recently examined the forensic image of the hard drive, they made a startling – but for Turkey all too familiar – discovery.
Nurturing an abundance of imaginative innovators and vibrant entrepreneurs requires embracing a vision of venturesome lives of creativity and discovery.
Indeed, the “Dutch Disease” – named for the catastrophic drop in Dutch manufacturing competitiveness after the discovery of natural gas in the North Sea drove up the currency – has become a serious concern.
Lowering volatility and sopping up excess liquidity can be beneficial, but there are risks here as well: regulators can easily overshoot the mark, leaving financial markets with weakened capacity for price discovery and too little liquidity.
Initially, as I argued in a speech in Aachen last spring, this discovery seemed discouraging: twilight is often linked with extinction, ruin, or death, the end approaching.
From the secret of Being and salvation to the secret of matter, from treasures hidden on faraway continents to political values such as the dignity and liberty of the individual and equality of all citizens before the law -- these are areas in which Europe accomplished a remarkable work of discovery which it then spread, often to the world’s benefit, yet often, sadly, to the world's detriment.
Markets work by a process of continuous discovery of information.
Compare that to the volume of coverage and condemnation associated with, say, the discovery of Saddam Hussein’s mass graves, which were filled with hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
Last month marked the 120th anniversary of the discovery that female mosquitoes transmit malaria among humans.
Since the discovery of the brain’s reward systems more than a half-century ago, a canonical view of addiction has emerged: addictive drugs plug into these reward systems, activate them more intensely than natural stimuli do, and thus highjack the brain.
In terms of basic science and intellectual discovery, this line of research has been highly fruitful.
The Curing MachineVIRGINIA BEACH – Last year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for a discovery that took 44 years to develop, and involved two different research teams.
If assault were punished with execution, perpetrators would have an incentive to kill their victims to avoid discovery (which is a major reason why the severity of punishments more generally should be matched to the severity of crimes).
Since the beginning of this year, roughly 2,500 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean, to say nothing of gruesome scenes like the recent discovery of 71 decomposing bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria.
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