discovery
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The discovery comes from measurements of infrared starlight passing through the planet's atmosphere as WASP-121 b crossed in front of its host star.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
This capability compresses the timeline between discovery and exploitation, placing immense pressure on organizations to fix vulnerabilities before attackers act.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
That's where many residents are still dealing with the fallout from the discovery that their homes were built with a potentially dangerous building material.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
For the discovery, the Fendouzhe submersible carried out 32 dives in 2023 -- though what it found was only revealed in Nature on Wednesday.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Then one day as I was flipping through a history book, I came across a brief section on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the New World.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
Vocabulary lists containing discovery
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"Old World New World" and "The Log of Christopher Columbus"
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