Teams now drive most scientific advances, yet the impact of absolute beginners -- authors with no prior publications -- remains understudied. Analyzing over 29 million articles published between 1941 and 2020 across disciplines and team sizes, we uncover a near-universal and previously undocumented pattern: teams with a higher fraction of beginners are systematically more disruptive and innovative. Their contributions are linked to distinct knowledge-integration behaviors, including drawing on broader and less canonical prior work and producing more atypical recombinations. Collaboration structure further shapes outcomes: disruption is high when beginners work with early-career colleagues or with co-authors who have disruptive track records. Although disruption and citations are negatively correlated overall, highly disruptive papers from beginner-heavy teams are highly cited. These findings reveal a ``beginner's charm'' in science, highlighting the underrecognized yet powerful value of beginner fractions in teams and suggesting actionable strategies for fostering a thriving ecosystem of innovation in science and technology.

翻译：如今，团队驱动着大多数科学进步，然而绝对新手——即没有先前发表记录的作者——所产生的影响仍研究不足。通过分析1941年至2020年间跨学科和团队规模的超过2900万篇论文，我们发现了一种近乎普遍且此前未被记录的规律：新手占比越高的团队，其系统性颠覆性和创新性越强。他们的贡献与独特的知识整合行为相关，包括借鉴更广泛、更非经典的先前研究，以及产生更非典型的重新组合。合作结构进一步塑造了结果：当新手与早期职业生涯的同事或具有颠覆性发表记录的合作者共事时，颠覆性会更高。尽管颠覆性与引用次数总体上呈负相关，但来自新手占比高的团队的高度颠覆性论文却获得了大量引用。这些发现揭示了科学中的“新手魔力”，凸显了团队中新手比例未被充分认识却强大的价值，并为培养充满活力的科技创新生态系统提供了可行的策略。