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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exponential growth in big data and computing power is transforming climate science, where machine learning is playing a critical role in mapping the physics of our changing climate. 150 million years ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a National Science Foundation grant. There ...

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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.

Entire disciplines are devoted to predicting the future. Trained forecasters use data, trends, human behavior and more to predict what lies ahead. Exactly no one at Science News is a quantitative ...