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1. news.harvard.edu › gazette › storyWhat’s behind a world-changing scientific breakthrough?

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   Jan 25, 2022 · Some are the result of a lucky accident, combined with curiosity: scientists traveling down one road suddenly find reason to veer onto another road, one they never planned to travel — a road that may well lead nowhere. Other major breakthroughs stem from scientists pursuing a very specific dream.

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2. www.health.harvard.edu › blog › what-it-takes-toWhat it takes to achieve world-changing scientific breakthroughs

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   Nov 16, 2021 · Some are the result of a lucky accident, combined with curiosity: scientists traveling down one road suddenly find reason to veer onto another road, one they never planned to travel — a road that may well lead nowhere. Other major breakthroughs stem from scientists pursuing a very specific dream.

   • Author: Anthony L. Komaroff, MD

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3. www.ocsolympiad.org › p › gsbcGlobal Science Breakthrough Challenge - (GSBC)

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   What does it take to achieve world-changing scientific breakthroughs? Some are the result of a lucky accident, combined with curiosity: scientists traveling down one road suddenly find reason to veer onto another road, one they never planned to travel — a road that may well lead nowhere.

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4. www.vox.com › 2015/3/23 › 82665716 things scientists have learned from studying roadkill | Vox

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   Mar 23, 2015 · 1) Roadkill has been a fact of life for centuries. Horse-drawn carriages, trains, and other vehicles have been killing animals for centuries. But as the automobile spread during the first few ...

5. www.smithsonianmag.com › science-nature › how-roadsHow Roads Have Transformed the Natural World | Smithsonian

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   Sep 5, 2023 · Roads predate the wheel: Mesopotamian builders began laying mud- brick paths in 4000 B.C.E., centuries before anyone thought to drop a chariot onto a couple of potter’s disks. Today it’s ...

6. hpi.uq.edu.au › article › 2016What exactly is the scientific method and why do so many ...

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   Sep 15, 2016 · Another is that even though some broad ideas may be settled, the details remain a source of lively debate. For example, that evolution has occurred is certainly settled by any rational account. But some details of how natural selection operates are still being fleshed out.

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   Why do scientists veer onto another road?

   • Some are the result of a lucky accident, combined with curiosity: scientists traveling down one road suddenly find reason to veer onto another road, one they never planned to travel — a road that may well lead nowhere. Other major breakthroughs stem from scientists pursuing a very specific dream.

   What’s behind a world-changing scientific breakthrough?

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   How did roads predate the wheel?

   • Roads predate the wheel: Mesopotamian builders began laying mud-brick paths in 4000 B.C.E., centuries before anyone thought to drop a chariot onto a couple of potter’s disks. Today it’s impossible to imagine life without the asphalt arteries that connect goods with markets, employees with jobs, families with each other.

   How Roads Have Transformed the Natural World | Smithsonian

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   How do roads distort the planet?

   • Roads distort the planet in other, more insidious ways. No sooner was Rome’s Via Cassia completed around 100 B.C.E. than its surface began to shed sediment into Lago di Monterosi, spawning algal blooms that permanently distorted the lake’s ecosystem.

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   Did humans build roads?

   • When alien archaeologists exhume the rubble of human civilization, they may conclude that our raison d’être was building roads. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the Earth, from the continent-spanning Pan-American Highway to the hundred thousand miles of illegal logging routes that filigree the Amazon.

   How Roads Have Transformed the Natural World | Smithsonian

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   When did roads get their scientific due?

   • Considering the outsize effects of roads, it’s perhaps surprising that they didn’t truly receive their scientific due until the late 20th century. One afternoon in 1993, a landscape ecologist named Richard Forman was standing in his Harvard University office with a few students, admiring a satellite photograph of a forest.

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   Why is roadkill so common?

   • A landmark 1951 study identified one of the biggest factors affecting its frequency: improved roads — which allow cars to travel faster — typically lead to more roadkill. Roadkill data collected by Iowa zoologist Dayton Stoner in the 1930s. (The Wilson Bulletin 1936)

   6 things scientists have learned from studying roadkill | Vox

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8. www.bbc.com › news › science-environment-41698375How science transformed the world in 100 years - BBC

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   Just over a hundred years ago, people had no idea how we inherit and pass on traits or how a single cell could grow into an organism. They didn't know that atoms themselves had structure - the ...