Big Science in the popular vocabulary The historical significance and cultural urgencies associated with Big Science projects have also, unsurprisingly, vaulted them into the worlds of pop culture ...

Before we started trying to figure out which big science projects are actually the biggest science projects in the world, we had to put down a few parameters. First, the projects had to be up and ...

Others point out, though, that the most famous successes in Big Science — the Human Genome project, the moon landing, the Manhattan Project — were essentially engineering projects, not basic ...

This week President Obama announced a big new brain research initiative. Both supporters and opponents of the project have compared it to the Human Genome Project. That project was once ...

Billion-dollar science projects end up being about much more than the science, whether we're talking about particle physics, or fusion research, or the international space station, or missions to ...

In the physical sciences, there seems to be little if any disagreement over what constitutes big science. Few physicists, for example, would disagree that the Superconducting Supercollider and the ...

In the wake of the Hubble Space Telescope and the discovery of the Higgs boson, should we continue to pursue big science projects, in spite of their costs? Commentator Marcelo Gleiser says it's a ...

Can Big Science Be Too Big? A new study finds that small teams of researchers do more innovative work than large teams do.