Have you made any new discoveries in the last 12 months?

Question: Have you made any new discoveries in the last 12 months?
- Keywords:
  discovery,
  research
Asked by rider491 to Kate, Rob, Claire, Matt, Sam on 16 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by 09mussef999, jennytyler6900, sloma001.
- Kate Husband answered on 16 Jun 2013:
  
  I’ve made a very small discovery, which was published in a paper at Easter, that a certain type of distant galaxy doesn’t have many other distant galaxies surrounding it. Not ground breaking I know but every little helps!
- Robert Woolfson answered on 17 Jun 2013:
  
  Yes I have, mostly that a lot of things don’t work. Which is very helpful for my research but not so useful for everyone else.
- Claire Lee answered on 24 Jun 2013:
  
  The stuff I worked on helped some of the Higgs results get published, so I had a hand in that discovery 🙂
  
  On a smaller scale, I’ve discovered lots of interesting things about the way our detector works, and the way our code works, that have been useful too 🙂
- Matthew Pankhurst answered on 26 Jun 2013:
  
  I’ve been lucky and made one or two 🙂 the most recent one is about how mountain belts stop growing (because the rocks underneath are ‘healed’ by a big hot event that seals them all out and melts away the damaged bits).

Question: Have you made any new discoveries in the last 12 months?