Yet neither banquets nor bone wars could match the 1902 discovery of T. rex in terms of hype and hyperbole.
"Some theories say that small black holes in globular clusters should sink down to the center and form a medium-sized one, but our discovery suggests this isn't true, " said Daniel Stern, an astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
But a system that demands timely and accurate financial disclosure and doesn't interfere with price discovery will invariably prove more resilient over time than a system that does not make such demands.
That hasn't stopped Boisseau from using the discovery process to turn up embarrassing evidence of kickbacks for 7-Eleven executives.
If the chat boards are any indication, the momentum crowd showed up for a quick trade, even if they don't understand the significance of this discovery and what it portends.
One result: Companies settle cases because discovery would cost more or because they can't risk marching toward trial without knowing what damaging e-mails might lurk in their files.
But this isn't the only news this week, for starters Discovery has its latest title, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, which we expect to sell well, but nowhere near what Planet Earth did.
At a hearing in April 2003 Specter grilled NIH officials on why they hadn't moved faster on implementing Fischbeck's SMA drug discovery plan.
Mobile World Congress is just a few days away, but that hasn't stopped Samsung from pulling back the curtain on TV Discovery: a new service that lets users search for and watch live TV, on-demand video and even online content from outfits such as YouTube.
Even more surprising was the discovery that infection byS. neurona makes toxoplasmosis, the disease caused by T.gondii infection, worse.
If you don't have a subscription, you can still enjoy Deezer's discovery mode, which offers unlimited access to Deezer's thousands of artist-based and themed radio channels, and allows music fans to browse the Deezer library and listen to 30-second clips of any of our 20 million tracks.
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At the time of Higgs' discovery, observers were especially interested in the possibility that this mysterious particle didn't decay in exactly the way science had predicted.
These days, music and technology are inexorably linked -- from creation and recording, to distribution and discovery, it's hard to imagine a song reaching our ears that hasn't made its way through some electronic filter.
Indeed, most of Hawking's Discovery Channel program was devoted to explaining that life as we know it is hugely diverse, and life as we don't yet know it is worth searching for because of all the ways a discovery would inform and surprise us.
Shut-down reactors include two at the beleaguered San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California, which hasn't produced electricity since January 2012, when a tiny radiation leak led to the discovery of damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
The discovery of this new particle is notable for what it tells us, but also for what it doesn't.
The initiative seems to have dissolved in the wake of the discovery that some of the campaign's most high-profile supporters, like Paris Hilton, weren't even registered to vote.
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