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Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
The discovery and exploration of the Solar System spans naked-eye antiquity, telescopic finds like Uranus in 1781 and Neptune in 1846, and spacecraft that have reached every planet since 1962.
Discovery Bay
Discovery Bay, also called Chile Bay, is a bay on northeast Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, site of Chile's Arturo Prat base (1947), Ecuador's Pedro Vicente Maldonado station, and the protected benthic habitat ASPA 144.
Discovery Capital Management
Discovery Capital Management is a global macro hedge fund manager in South Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1999 by Robert Citrone, a former Tiger Management portfolio manager known as a Tiger Cub.
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel, American documentary pay-TV channel founded by John Hendricks, launched June 17, 1985 to 156,000 homes; known for Shark Week (since 1988), now a Warner Bros. Discovery brand reaching 224 countries.
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves (Reservas de Mata Atlântica da Costa do Descobrimento): serial natural World Heritage site, Bahia and Espírito Santo, Brazil, inscribed 1999; eight protected areas, 111,930 ha of Atlantic Forest, criteria (ix)(x).
Discovery doctrine
Discovery doctrine: the Doctrine of Discovery, a public international law principle giving discovering European nations property and sovereignty rights over inhabited lands, rooted in 15th-century papal bulls, codified in U.S. law by Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823), repudiated by the Vatican in 2023.
Discovery en Español
Discovery en Español is a U.S. Spanish-language cable network launched by Discovery Communications in June 1998, the leading channel of Discovery U.S. Hispanic, airing documentaries and docu-reality originals such as Mexicánicos.
Discovery Family
Discovery Family Channel is an American pay-TV network launched October 13, 2014 from the rebranded Hub Network (itself formerly Discovery Kids). Discovery holds the controlling stake, Hasbro 40 percent; daytime carries Hasbro animation, primetime Discovery nonfiction.
Discovery Island (Bay Lake)
Discovery Island (Bay Lake) was an 11.5-acre Disney zoological park in Bay Lake at Walt Disney World, opened as Treasure Island in 1974, renamed Discovery Island, closed April 8, 1999, and abandoned since.
Discovery Land theme park
Discovery Land theme park (大连发现王国), or Dalian Haichang Discoveryland / Discovery Kingdom, is a 467,000-square-metre amusement park opened in 2006 in Jinshitan, Dalian, China, operated by the Haichang group.
Discovery learning
Discovery learning is a teaching method in which students acquire knowledge by exploring problems themselves, named by Jerome S. Bruner in 1961 and best used with guidance.
Discovery Limited (South African insurer)
Discovery Limited is a South African financial services group founded by Adrian Gore in 1992 and listed on the JSE since 1999, known for its Vitality rewards insurance model.
Discovery of Brazil
The Discovery of Brazil (Descobrimento do Brasil) is the traditional name for the Portuguese arrival on the Brazilian coast under Pedro Álvares Cabral on 22 April 1500.
Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
The discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation was made by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, in 1964–65.
Discovery of cosmic rays
The discovery of cosmic rays was Victor Hess's 1912 balloon finding that penetrating ionizing radiation reaches Earth from above, confirmed by Kolhörster and named by Millikan in the mid-1920s.
Discovery of Love (연애의 발견)
Discovery of Love (연애의 발견, Discovery of Romance) is a 2014 KBS2 16-episode romantic-comedy miniseries starring Jung Yu-mi, Eric Mun, and Sung Joon in a love triangle; directed by Kim Sung-yun, written by Jung Hyun-jung.
Discovery of Neptune
The discovery of Neptune was the finding of the eighth planet on 23 September 1846, when Galle and d'Arrest located it near the position Le Verrier predicted from Uranus's orbit.
Discovery of nuclear fission
The discovery of nuclear fission was the 1938–1939 finding that a uranium nucleus splits into two fragments when struck by a neutron, explained by Meitner and Frisch.
Discovery of radioactivity
The discovery of radioactivity was Henri Becquerel's 1896 finding that uranium salts spontaneously emit invisible radiation that fogs photographic plates, opening the study of nuclear physics.
Discovery of superconductivity
The discovery of superconductivity was the 1911 observation at Leiden, led by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, that solid mercury's electrical resistance fell to zero when cooled in liquid helium.
Discovery of the Book of the Law
The discovery of the Book of the Law was the finding of a scroll in the Temple of Jerusalem in 622 BC, during repairs under King Josiah of Judah.
Discovery of the electron
The discovery of the electron was J. J. Thomson's 1897 demonstration at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, that cathode rays are negatively charged particles far lighter than atoms.
Discovery of the Higgs boson
The discovery of the Higgs boson was announced at CERN on 4 July 2012, when the ATLAS and CMS experiments each observed it at a mass of 125 GeV.
Discovery of the Indus script
The discovery of the Indus script was John Marshall's 1924 announcement that seals from Harappa and Mohenjo-daro bore legends in an unknown script, revealing a lost civilization.
Discovery of the neutron
The discovery of the neutron was James Chadwick's 1932 demonstration that the penetrating radiation from bombarded beryllium was a new uncharged particle, the neutron, with a mass close to the proton's.
Discovery of the old-text classics in the wall of Confucius's residence
The discovery of the old-text classics (孔壁古文经) was the Western Han finding of pre-Qin texts in a wall of Confucius's house, made when Prince Gong of Lu demolished it.
Discovery of the Zacatecas silver mines
The discovery of the Zacatecas silver mines (Descubrimiento de las minas de Zacatecas) was the finding of rich silver veins by Juan de Tolosa in 1546.
Discovery of X-rays
The discovery of X-rays was made by German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen at the University of Würzburg on 8 November 1895, earning him the first Nobel Prize in Physics.
Discovery Program
The Discovery Program is a NASA planetary science program, created in 1992, funding competitively selected, principal-investigator-led missions like Pathfinder, Kepler, and InSight under a fixed cost cap.
Discovery Rupes
Discovery Rupes is a large lobate scarp, a thrust-fault cliff, in Mercury's southern hemisphere, over 500 km long with about 1.5 km relief, first imaged by Mariner 10 and named for Cook's ship HMS Discovery.