This was a discovery of major importance because it made it possible to amplify the radio-frequency signal picked up by the antenna before application to the receiver detector; thus, much weaker signals could be utilized than had previously been possible.
"In some ways it's not a discovery because Australians have known about the healing power of eucalyptus for a long time," said Dr Eugene Sherry, an orthopaedic surgeon at Sydney's Nepean hospital, who is leading the team undertaking the trials in Australia.
The complete, 180-degree change of direction was possible because Curiosity is a "discovery-driven mission," Grotzinger said.
It featured very strongly during the hunt for the Higgs boson at CERN (usually in terms of "5 sigma" confidence being needed for a discovery, because that's how we particle physicists tend to do it), but is often absent in discussions which most people would see as being of much more immediate effect.
In the world of serendipity and of trial and error, failure was a condition of discovery, because, when something was new and worked in ways that no one quite understood, every bit of knowledge had to be learned, one experiment at a time.
This is a major discovery because we have very few human fossils from this period in Europe".
"It's a big discovery, because it answers the question of why you sometimes have better cycling [charging and discharging] performance when you use ceramic separators," Bai says.
That was a blockbuster discovery because archaeologists had previously found khipus only in graves, where they were often buried with the scribes who created and used the devices.
This is a convenient discovery, because serious off-road rambling is much more of a challenge in a car-based crossover like the new Explorer.
"This was a major discovery because everyone now thinks of the immune response in two parts, and in many instances it's the cellular components that are more important," said Dr. Michel Nussenzweig, a professor of immunology at Rockefeller.
