邵逸夫奖得奖者 2022
Hong Kong Meridian (I)
Since the early development in the 19th century, shipping has been the lifeblood of Hong Kong’s economy. To ensure smooth port operations and the safe navigation of ships, an accurate time service, meteorological observations and geomagnetic observations had to be provided…
Global Response to Climate Change
From 1901 to 2012 there was a warming trend in almost every corner of the world, which was caused mainly by human activities…
Prophecy Fulfilled?
The first discovery of gravitational waves was made during the first so-called observation run, extended stretches of data taking, between September 2015 and January 2016. During this first observation run, Advanced LIGO made two detections of gravitational waves, both originating in the collision of two black holes…