{"664542":{"#nid":"664542","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Science isn\u0027t as disruptive as it used to be. Now we need to understand why","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIs science better when it disrupts or when there are just incremental improvements to previous knowledge? The topic was analyzed in a recent study, and it seems that researchers have spent these past years improving things rather than trying to revolutionize everything. The study suggests that the level of \u0026quot;disruptiveness\u0026quot; in scientific research has gone way down in the 2000s compared to the last half-century.\u0026nbsp;Yian Yin, a computational social scientist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, highlights how disruptiveness is not inherently good, and incremental science is not necessarily bad.\u0026nbsp;Yin cites the first\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/63793-einstein-right-gravitational-waves-detected-first-time-landmark.html\u0022\u003Edirect observation of gravitational waves\u003C\/a\u003E, a landmark discovery that was both revolutionary and the product of incremental science. Georgia Tech researchers, many from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;worked with researchers at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ligo.caltech.edu\u0022\u003ELaser Interferomoter Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)\u003C\/a\u003E on the gravitational wave observations. (This coverage also appeared in \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-04577-5\u0022\u003ENature\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/higher-ed-gamma\/academic-scholarship-stagnating-0\u0022\u003EInside Higher Education\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-01-09 19:53:25","changed_gmt":"2023-02-02 18:33:13","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/97174-science-isnt-disruptive-used-now-need-understand-why.html","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"120161","name":"LIGO"},{"id":"174581","name":"Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory"},{"id":"99091","name":"Gravitational waves"},{"id":"167040","name":"science"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}