Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
Why is fundamental science becoming less disruptive? Physicists Ian Durham and David Sloan join Zeeya Merali to discuss a recent study in Nature that claims that the proportion of research papers and patents describing big leaps is going down. And we launch FQxI's $40,000 essay contest, which invites you to suggest how science could be different -- and how it could be made better.
Enter now: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions/introduction
Why is fundamental science becoming less disruptive? Physicists Ian Durham and David Sloan join Zeeya Merali to discuss a recent study in Nature that claims that the proportion of research papers and patents describing big leaps is going down. And we launch FQxI's $40,000 essay contest, which invites you to suggest how science could be different -- and how it could be made better.
Enter now: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions/introduction










