discovery

This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.

The purpose of the voyage was discovery.

Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion […] The lady being a woman of discretion, instead of making a discovery, which might have been attended with melancholy consequences, reprimanded her relation with gentleness […]

The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery.

The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.