Eureka!
Nice goin’, science guys. Now about that cancer thing …
Scratch out the name of the guy who was going to get the Nobel. We have a new winner.
Scientists discover water in the middle of the Atlantic
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LOL!
Seriously though, I enjoy when scientists are like, “This is weird. Something should be here.” And then they find it.
It is truly amazing how many things these people “discover” that provide no practical use or advantage to society. They have no problem trumpeting them to the world however.
One of the consistent facts about science is that any new understanding will eventually be useful. In some cases, its use is apparent. In others, it reveals itself slowly. Gregor Mendel’s work on genetic inheritance was considered useless stuff and remained unread and unapplied throughout his lifetime. To the world, he was an egghead playing with peas in his garden. Today the field of genetics, of which he is considered the father, may be the single most important and useful of all the sciences.
It doesn’t fit here, but one of the things that people don’t understand about scientific research is the need to progress step by step. So, there are all sorts of research findings that seem totally obvious, but because of the need to nail findings down before moving on, there is a need to confirm what seems to be the obvious.
On the flip side, science has been held back by many false assumptions. I read a book a couple years ago called ‘The Sounds of Life’ by Karen Bakker about plant and animal communications and this field had been dominated by assumptions that plants don’t/can’t communicate and animals don’t/can’t communicate over long distances. Both assumptions were overturned by research that most scientists (and very likely non scientists if they were aware of the reserach) dismissed as ‘how did the nutty scientist get funding to explore The Secret Life of Plants?”