Sentence examples for fluke discovery from inspiring English sources

There were many happy twists of fate that led to the most visited and talked about public art installation for a generation, not least the fluke discovery of a remarkable sentence in an unknown soldier's will and a fortunate case of mistaken identity.

Mere weeks ago, the rumour mill suggested the certainty level for the signal had not reached the benchmark of five sigma (about a one in 3.5 million chance of a fluke) required to claim a discovery, and that the champagne would - once again - have to remain corked.

Sedna's highly elliptical orbit means that the probability of its detection was roughly 1 in 80, suggesting that, unless its discovery was a fluke, another 40 120 Sedna-sized objects would exist within its region.

This week's announcement does not yet rise to a definitive discovery because a statistical fluke could be masquerading as a Higgs particle.

This report provides the first description of gene discovery for the liver fluke O. viverrini.

He said the genomics community has also tightened the standard for a "significant" result, precisely to overcome the problem of statistical flukes being mistaken for discoveries.

Five sigma means there is about a one-in-one-million chance that the "bump" is just a fluke and is the level generally required for a formal discovery.

On several occasions, the discovery of a cache of biological weapons has been a fluke.

Five sigma meant that Kuo had satisfied the statistical standard for discovery and that the chances of his observation being a fluke were extraordinarily low — one in three and a half million.

Five sigma meant that Kuo had satisfied the statistical standard for discovery and that the chances of his observation being a fluke were extraordinarily low one in three and a half million.

The biggest discovery in science this year the observation of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves was no fluke.