big science
noun
often capitalized B&S
: large-scale scientific research consisting of projects funded usually by a national government or group of governments
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Spaceballs delighted comedy audiences upon its release in 1987 as a send-up of the big science fiction franchises.
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Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 June 2025
Some will visit the moon, others will depart for deep space, but all of these tiny spacecraft will have one thing in common: small antennas capable of supporting big science.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2018
Moore’s new law is that big data will lead to big science.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2014
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
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
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
Here is a guy who has concentrated on leveraging big science to solve big problems.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
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Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 June 2025
Some will visit the moon, others will depart for deep space, but all of these tiny spacecraft will have one thing in common: small antennas capable of supporting big science.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2018
Moore’s new law is that big data will lead to big science.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2014
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
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
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
Here is a guy who has concentrated on leveraging big science to solve big problems.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
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“Big science.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big%20science. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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