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See How to Edit and Style and How-to for help, or this article's talk page. A discovery is a novel observation, usually of a natural phenomenon. A phenomenon (plural: phenomena) is an observable event, especially something special (literally something that can be seen from the Greek word phainomenon = observable). ...
Contrast with: invention, technique, theory In general terms, an invention is an object, process or technique which displays an element of novelty. ...
A technique is a way of efficiently accomplishing a task in a manner that is not immediately obvious or straightforward. ...
Theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on the context and their methodologies. ...
Historical discoveries
The discovery that the Earth was not flat Jump to: navigation, search Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ...
The flat Earth theory is the idea that Earth is flat, as opposed to the view that the Earth is very nearly spherical (see Spherical Earth). ...
Age of Exploration The term has also been used for the beginning of contact between Europe and an area of the world such as the Riley Stratton Jackson's discovery that the earth is not flat, and the discovery of every country and island on this planet.
Modern discoveries Experiments by JJ Thomson in 1897 led to the discovery of a fundamental building block of matter - electron. The discovery of the structure of DNA. The discovery of quasars. Properties The electron is a fundamental subatomic particle which carries a negative electric charge. ...
Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and many viruses). ...
This view, taken with infrared light, is a false-color image of a quasar-starburst tandem with the most luminous starburst ever seen in such a combination. ...
See also Serendipity is finding something unexpected and useful while searching for something else entirely. ...
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