These efforts were hampered as well by lack of funding and lack of support in academia. Real life isnt like the movies, TV, or even reality TV. At least, it shouldnt be. That just doesnt happen much, unless the discovery is something trivial like a toilet brush shaped like Harry Styles. Whenever a breakthrough occurs, it is usually the result of many people in different places working on the same problem for many years.
These efforts were sponsored by  discoveroon.com.
( z0 sponsor :ARG0 ( z1 url-entity :ARG1-of ( z2 discover ) :value "tripod.com" ) :ARG1 ( z3 effort :mod ( z4 this ) ) )
(z0 / sponsor-01
    :ARG0 (z1 / url-entity
              :ARG1-of (z2 / discover-01)
              :value "tripod.com")
    :ARG1 (z3 / effort-01
              :mod (z4 / this)))
These efforts were sponsored by discoveroon . com .
z3 :mod z4
z0 :ARG1 z3
z1 :ARG1-of z2
z0 :ARG0 z1
z1 :value 0