Question: have you ever discovered something that no one has ever discovered before if you did how did you handle it?

Andrew McDowall answered on 26 Mar 2026:

I’ve made a fair number of new materials that no-one had made previously, or that no-one had reported making previously. Unfortunately they mostly weren’t that interesting. No particularly useful properties or interesting structures. For the few that did we collated the data and published the findings and results in scientific journals, so that others could know of them and build on the results is they wanted to.

Sadly no Eureka! moments for me, knowledge mostly advances in small steps, not great leaps.