Information in science
Information is always the base of any science because it makes its essence, its structure, its methods, etc. There is no science without information. But sciences usually use this term and change information without considering it as philosophical and scientific category.
Probably only philosophy considers information as it is and other scientific works use it, look for the methods of its getting, the methods of its keeping, working up, interpretation according to the specialization of the discipline but these sciences don't consider the essence of information.
Despite the insufficient knowledge of people in the signification of the word "information", information itself is the only way of the human communication and contact between people and the world. During all moments when we get to know something, we are talking about information. And cognition itself is possible only thanks to the possibility of people to define the necessary information from the world and the capability of the world to be the transmitter of information.
Some information services say that information is the universal quality of the matter that is the spread of the objects essence in space and time through the objectively existing data mediums of different nature. But if you ask the ordinary person what information is he/she will probably say that it is data about somebody or something sent with the help of different methods from the world and other people.