The present aims at understanding whether and how mastering scientific knowledge in team dynamics helps to develop technologies with high breadth of impact (i.e., technologies that can be applied to diverse domains). Specifically, the relationship between the presence of scientists within inventing teams and the generality of the technologies they generate is examined. Furthermore, we asses if the fact that scientists operate in international or more familiar teams modifies the relationship above mentioned. We develop hypotheses and test them on the basis of a sample of 5390 patents belonging to the aircraft sector and granted at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) only by a single company. Tobit regression is used as the econometric technique. To the best of our knowledge, this research represents one of the first attempts to analyse the science-pervasiveness relationship with a particular focus on team dynamics. Furthermore, our study evidences that this relationship is contingent upon specific team characteristics (i.e., team internationalization and team familiarity). Results of this paper may help firms in organizing their research teams for developing pervasive technological solutions. In detail, we advise managers that having scientists within inventing teams may be detrimental. Moreover, we highlight that this negative effects of science are mitigated when scientists are within an international team; conversely, they are exacerbated when the team familiarity is high.