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Beyond Discovery™: The Path from Research to Human Benefit is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted
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Beyond discovery is a site that analyzes modern events through the lens of scientific discoveries of the past. The purpose is to show that basic advances lead to unforeseeable developments in the future. For example, one of the articles examines how game theory has influenced government-run electromagnetic spectrum auctions. While the earliest game theorists may not have guessed this application of their work, modern observers can see the wide impact of past discoveries. The site offers more than twenty articles in English and as many as five other languages. Another feature is a timeline tool that allows users to view each timelines for each article independently or together with others.