discovery
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“They still have that bit of allure of discovery and sense of adventure, which is hard to find in this digital age when everything is available online,” she said of drugstores abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The discovery could also broaden research into how the health and history of blood stem cells affect the brain.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Soon after, they alerted police to the discovery and explained that keeping it for themselves was not an option.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Running a pharmaceutical company under our dysfunctional system is a high-wire act that requires balancing the high-risk, high-cost business of drug discovery against the dubious math of drug pricing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
What we do know is that aside from the thrill of discovery that the recovery of each artifact brought with it, the raising of the Mary Rose was an extraordinary adventure.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
This has led to unusual discoveries on the river bed, including the bones of a mammoth in Bulgaria and a sunken WW2 warship in Serbia.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Sanxingdui discoveries challenge the traditional narrative that Chinese civilization emerged solely from the Yellow River Basin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
German police have searched the area near the site of impact for remnants of that object or any other clues, but so far without reporting any discoveries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Emily Lindsey, curator and excavation site director at the La Brea Tar Pits’ center, said the discovery of the ice age toad is an example of the ongoing discoveries being made at the museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
It is easy to say that our world has been made by science or by technology, but scientific and technological progress depend on a pre-existing assumption, the assumption that there are discoveries to be made.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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