In the same vein, 19th-century Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell came up with equations that predicted radio waves, a discovery with unintended consequences born out of "trying to understand how the universe works", says Milner.
With this move, the role for ethics in science is becoming more than an important constraint on scientific practice and unintended consequences of unbridled discovery.
Furthermore, many outstanding research discoveries were the unintended offshoots of serendipitous observations even though the original experiments were not designed to study the phenomenon.
While spatial contiguity is widely considered an important condition of a cluster, most detection approaches employ a priori artificial structure, leading to disingenuous significance and unintended spatial biases that hinders meaningful discovery and interpretation.
Explorations often have many unintended consequences; often these become the discoveries we're looking for when we engage in experiments.
These discoveries have come about as an unintended consequence of an immigration policy adopted last June by President Obama that allows young illegal immigrants, under certain conditions, to apply for the right to remain in the country temporarily and work.
Procedures will need to be put in place to handle such discoveries in a consistent manner which avoids unintended psychological harm.
An unintended by-product of this improving diagnostic acumen is the discovery of incidental hepatic lesions in oncology patients that in the past remained undetected.
Changes in economic imperatives in the pharmaceutical industry have led to a wave of consolidation, which has had the unintended side effect of shrinking the resource devoted to antiparasitic drug discovery in animal health companies.
The discovery raises new questions about how the toxin works and what unintended consequences it may have.
