discover

Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.

Identify as in botany or biology, for example.

Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.

Find unexpectedly.

Make a discovery.

“The story is false, so far as I can discover”

Make a discovery, make a new finding.

“Roentgen discovered X-rays”

See for the first time; make a discovery.

“Who discovered the North Pole?”