The discovery of marine creatures living around geothermally heated water that gushed from cracks in the seabed overturned the notion that sunlight sustained all life on Earth.
In other words, America must expect to fight protracted, enervating counter-insurgency wars that offer no clear-cut victories and risk the prospect of humiliation.A new manual on counter-insurgency co-authored by the man now in charge of the war in Iraq, General David Petraeus, overturns the notion that America doesn't "do nation-building".
Although this overturns the notion that new neurons do not arise in the human brain, the practical significance is unclear.
The technology introduced herein provides a novel approach for 3D porous material manufacturing and overturns the notion that vapor deposition necessarily forms dense thin films on substrates.
He found that charged atoms or ions were needed as nuclei for the condensation of water droplets, overturning the notion that droplets formed around dust particles.
Fourteen years later Pioneer is overturning the notion that criminals can't be reintegrated into society — not by giving them handouts but by putting them to work.
The finding, published online today in Nature, overturns the notion that this repetitive, non-coding DNA, popularly called "junk" DNA, is necessary for life.
Together with contemporaries such as Hermann von Helmholtz and Emil du-Bois Reymond, he played a key role in overturning vitalism, the notion that living things differ from inanimate objects because they possess some kind of non-physical entity, often called a "vital spark," or merely "energy," that was likened by some to the soul.
Mr. Perlmutter's 1998 discovery, which overturned the conventional notion that the universe's expansion was slowing, was 10 years in the making.
