Fall of Winterhome - Science team

Far out in the Frostlands, next to the iron mine outpost, there's a site with like 20 engineers saying they're doing research and have promising leads on something. You can take them back to Winterhome (and I usually do, because I feel like I need all the manpower I can get) or you can leave them be.

With the weather station, the choice is fairly obvious - leave it crewed and get a weather forecast, or take them home and lose that. Does this science team actually yield anything useful if you let them be long enough?

Sidenote but I love this idea of crewing sites in the Frostlands that provide a non-material benefit, I wish they did more with it (maybe they will in the remake?)