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Space stories tops
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-01-14 09:20 The Academicians of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering have released
the 2004 results of their voting for the top-10 science news stories in the
world and in China, respectively.
The results were tabulated from answers from 584 voters.
China's 10 biggest science stories included: the high-performance super
server, the first Chinese-made nuclear power plant, the gas pipeline from West
China to East China, the next-generation Internet, the launch of the second
space exploration satellite, the new nano-tech material, the underwater
high-precision positioning system, the find of membrane crystal structure, the
quantum telecommunication technology, and oil and gas exploration in the China
seas.
Xu Kuangdi, CAE president, said that all the top-10 science news in China
concerned social and economic development in the country.
The world's 10 biggest science news story included: the finding of water
traces on Mars, the supersonic plane which reached a highest speed of 10,000
kilometers per hour, the first spaceship tour to the orbit surrounding Saturn,
the first stem cell cloned from the human body, the first observation on a
single electron, the technology manufacturing hydrogen in a large scale,
photon-based telecommunication technology, the find of the most remote celestial
body in the solar system, the anti-body research on AIDS virus, and the first
molecular motor which could be ceased or paused.
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