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, ...

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 ...

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.

Attendees of this year’s Space Symposium were understandably distracted by what was going on a thousand miles from Colorado Springs. The conference was bookended by SpaceX’s first attempt to launch ...