The discoveries of his second voyage (1772 1775) would change the global map forever.

Precise geoid The 1990s saw important discoveries in the theory of geoid computation.

The story was one of the first and biggest revelations made by activist Alexey Navalny about the vast personal wealth of individuals in Vladimir Putin's inner circle.

At the time of Lakes' discoveries, the Transcontinental Railroad was being built through a remote area of Wyoming.

At the same time, we physicists have been busy trying to make sense of and build on and integrate the discoveries of quantum theory and relativity.

More meaningful is the respect that comes from incubating insights, rather than the products of past discoveries.

In 1991, Andrew G. Lyne announced the first ever pulsar planet discovered around PSR 1829 10.

I remain hopeful that new findings will take place next year and that more files will be closed.

There is nothing flashy about Turkey s rise, which has been based on fundamentals, rather than bubbles or resource discoveries.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article in the New Yorker on innovation, and he made the case that scientific discoveries are rarely the product of one individual's genius.

It is widely acknowledged that the high current level of investment in pharmaceutical research is yielding too few substantive discoveries.

The first such mission, HETE 2, launched in 2000 and functioned until 2006, providing most of the major discoveries during this period.

His student Alan Glennon discovered an entrance and made significant discoveries to the Martin Ridge Cave System, Kentucky (51.8 kilometers long).

Within the past six years, shale gas alone has doubled potential gas resources in the United States and halved the price.

Discoveries about the electrification of the atmosphere via sensitive electrical instruments and ideas on how the Earth s negative charge is maintained were developed mainly in the 20th century.

He was quick to adopt new instruments of all kinds he invented a new variant of the Daniell cell in 1837 and made important discoveries in electrometallurgy with it.

It questions whether or not there really are any new frontiers out there, whether there are any real, true, hardcore discoveries that can still be made.

In fact, the bulk of recent growth in world reserves is due not to new discoveries, but mainly to reserve growth and improved recovery rates.

By making these partnerships that I described to you, I have really opened my mind and, I have to say, my heart to have a greater understanding, to make other discoveries about nature and myself.

Cope's collection is now at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, while Marsh's is on display at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

Sir Patrick Manson GCMG, FRS (3 October 1844 9 April 1922) was a Scottish physician who made important discoveries in parasitology, and was the founder of the field of tropical medicine.

Following the expedition South by the ships Erebus and Terror under James Clark Ross (January, 1841), he suggested that there were no scientific discoveries, or 'problems', worth exploration in the far South.

There are many cases, some of which I talk about in the book, of people who have been slandered, called Nazis, physically assaulted, threatened with criminal prosecution for stumbling across or arguing about controversial findings.

Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. He's made some unexpected discoveries along the way.

These Acheulian hand axes they're named after St. Acheul in France, where finds were made in 19th century have been unearthed in their thousands, scattered across Asia, Europe and Africa, almost everywhere Homo erectus and Homo ergaster roamed.

Screening the genome for breast cancer susceptibility factors has led to the identification of novel genetic variants, and ongoing studies and further technical progress will certainly lead to additional significant findings.

The lesson is clear while it is important to justify flagship scientific missions by what we expect to find, funding should be based mainly on their potential to lead to unexpected discoveries.

Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

Finally, as a scientist and as a person and now, as part of the TED community, I feel that I have better tools to go out to trees, to go out to forests, to go out to nature, to make new discoveries about nature and about humans' place in nature wherever we are and whomever you are.

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We analyzed which reforms in the international trade regime would most benefit those in the developing world, and we presented an alternative agenda based on our findings.

IAEA officials complained in 2007 that most U.S. intelligence shared with it to date about Iran's nuclear program proved to be inaccurate, and that none had led to significant discoveries inside Iran through that time.

Beyond avoidable suffering and death, failure to report research also slows the pace of scientific discovery. It is widely acknowledged that the high current level of investment in pharmaceutical research is yielding too few substantive discoveries.

The mistakes that are integral to scientific progress are not those that result from haste, sloppiness, or inexperience. Rather, they are the mistakes that arise from thoughtful, meticulous experimentation based on bold ideas the kind of ideas that can lead to major breakthroughs.

Of course, the stakes are too high for Canada, Denmark, and Russia to allow the region s remoteness and its hostile environment to influence how resolutely they press their claims. Boundaries like these are fixed once and forever, and no one knows what discoveries, technologies, and opportunities the future might bring.

Likewise, closer to home, as many as half of our discoveries of new medicines have originated from accidents. For example, isoniazid was initially tested as a tuberculosis drug iproniazid, one of its derivatives, later proved to be effective in the treatment of depression.