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Big Science
A popular term for large, long-term, multi-center, and often multinational research efforts that are goal-oriented, initiated by consensus committees, rather than an individual investigator, and costly—e.g., Human Genome Project, War on Cancer, the International Space Station, Large Hadron Collider


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