While serendipity has often been associated with luck or happy accidents, its origin suggests that it goes beyond just ...

Serendipity, the accidental solution to a problem the problem-solver isn’t consciously trying to solve, is credited with some of science’s most important discoveries, from penicillin to super glue.

In the dynamic tapestry of life, unexpected events often hold the keys to love, new relationships, and creative solutions. This is the essence of serendipity—a phenomenon that unfolds through surprise ...

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. I’d like to tell the story of a paradox: How do we bring the right people to the right place at the ...

“The best discoveries are made when one is searching for something else”-Horace Walpole One of my favorite words, loaded with meaning and wonder, is serendipity. The word has an interesting origin ...

EXPERIMENTS that go according to plan can be useful. But the biggest scientific advances often emerge from those that do not. Such is the case with a study just reported in the Proceedings of the ...

One recent example comes from an international scientific team studying the bacterium, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, which makes an enzyme that breaks down the most commonly used form of plastic, thus ...

EVERY year, hordes of free spirits gather in the Nevada desert to “breathe art”, feel at one with the cosmos and sample the delights of Bianca's Smut Shack. The Burning Man festival is radically ...