big science
noun
variants
often Big science
: large-scale scientific research consisting of projects funded usually by a national government or group of governments
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Rather than choose a class, players start off as Understaffed Workers, the future dino snacks working at the big science theme park for minimum wage.
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Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Disney and 20th Century Studios are having a big science fiction moment with series like Planet of the Apes, Alien, and Predator, but of course, James Cameron's third Avatar movie is going to be the headline act for 2025.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 29 July 2025
Spaceballs delighted comedy audiences upon its release in 1987 as a send-up of the big science fiction franchises.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 June 2025
There could be some big science rewards waiting at the top.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Most of the other faces from the Enterprise bridge have made surprisingly few game appearances, but a couple of big science fiction games showed an interest in the cast from this series.
—Anna Washenko, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
That’s a big if in an era when pushing through big science projects is politicized and fraught.
—David Ewing Duncan, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
Fred Loosen/Imec An unusual union of big tech and big science created Neuropixels, a fundamentally new technology for observing brains in action.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2022
The expeditions also represented the world’s first big science project---forefather to today’s Large Hadron Collider and Human Genome Project, in which an international community of hundreds or thousands collaborates on a single fundamental scientific problem at the frontier of human knowledge.
—Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2012
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Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Disney and 20th Century Studios are having a big science fiction moment with series like Planet of the Apes, Alien, and Predator, but of course, James Cameron's third Avatar movie is going to be the headline act for 2025.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 29 July 2025
Spaceballs delighted comedy audiences upon its release in 1987 as a send-up of the big science fiction franchises.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 June 2025
There could be some big science rewards waiting at the top.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Most of the other faces from the Enterprise bridge have made surprisingly few game appearances, but a couple of big science fiction games showed an interest in the cast from this series.
—Anna Washenko, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
That’s a big if in an era when pushing through big science projects is politicized and fraught.
—David Ewing Duncan, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
Fred Loosen/Imec An unusual union of big tech and big science created Neuropixels, a fundamentally new technology for observing brains in action.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2022
The expeditions also represented the world’s first big science project---forefather to today’s Large Hadron Collider and Human Genome Project, in which an international community of hundreds or thousands collaborates on a single fundamental scientific problem at the frontier of human knowledge.
—Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2012
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