The big discovery was that algae, depending on the strain, could make oils that, biochemically, looked a lot like others found in nature or already in use in the marketplace.
Its headline discovery was that Trident isn't really that independent at all – if the US were to ever remove its support and know-how, the UK's nuclear capability would collapse in a matter of months.
One discovery was that British universities which had been trying to impress Chinese students with a traditional rice porridge dish called congee had been using the wrong recipe - failing to use ingredients such as coriander and chillies.
For a wide class of models, a significant discovery was that efficient simulations can be found.
And the corollary to this discovery was that values and attitudes cannot be changed by traditional teaching techniques like reading and lecturing.
The classic discovery was that monkeys with amygdala damage were "tamed;" snakes, for example, no longer elicited so-called fight-flight responses after amygdala damage.
One surprising discovery was that species carrying TAAR3 and TAAR4 pseudogenes significantly overlap (Figures 1, 2).
Furthermore, an additional remarkable discovery was that Bem3 was not merely a passive secretory cargo delivered to polarized sites on secretory vesicles.
The second discovery was that SIR2 is an NAD-dependent histone deacetylase, which established SIR2 as a mechanistically novel lysine deacetylase and revealed the connection between gene silencing and cellular metabolism.
One startling discovery was that the sea is actually a kind of desert.
But the real discovery was that this presence remained, right up to the most recent CD".
