And it’s exactly what happened this year the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. As 2025 comes to a close, here are a few bite-sized stories that capture both the ...

In early 1946, half a year after atomic bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government awarded Ernest Lawrence the Medal for Merit. Presiding over the ceremony was Gen. Leslie Groves, ...

Editors' note: This is a guest column. See Alex Yoder's bio below. We are living in "the age of big data," according to The World Economic Forum. Renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil agrees. I do too. As ...

Big Science, Team Science, Open Science: In this week’s issue of Neuron, two top executives at Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science lay out a manifesto for the future of large research projects ...

Elizabeth Pollitzer says measures must be taken to tackle the gender imbalance among staff and users of large research infrastructures Getting together Delegates of the Women in Big Science session ...

IOP Publishing is proud to announce the release of ‘Big Science in the 21 st Century’, a comprehensive exploration of the impact of Big Science on our society and the new perspectives it opens on ...

Arguments are often heard against big (read: expensive) scientific projects, especially those without an immediate pay off. "Why spend so much money building this machine or spacecraft, when there are ...

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That's the thesis of a must-read article in First Things magazine, in which William A. Wilson accumulates evidence that a lot of published research is false. But that's not even the worst part.