A new way to detect breakthroughs in science: Large-scale analysis reveals ‘disruptive’ innovations in research history

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics—and a research team including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, has developed a method to help pinpoint discoveries that reshaped the course of science.

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