Could small team science be disappearing?0

• SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
• July 23, 2026

The size of scientific research teams has steadily increased over time.Credit: two meows/Getty Few articles in history have had the disruptive impact of the 1953 article by James Watson and Francis Crick. Nature article proposing the double helix structure of DNA1. It is a classic of small team science; two authors who propose a paradigm-changing