高锟被誉为「光纤之父」、「光纤通讯之父」、「宽带教父」及为2009诺贝尔物理学奖得奖者，说他是现代最重要和最有影响力的工程家之一，绝对是无容置疑的。他在「光传输于纤维的光学通信领域突破性成就（for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication）」，更造就了互联网时代的的爆炸性发展…..
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Dark Matter
If you have done star-gazing, you probably would have enjoyed and admired the majestic arrangements of stars into galaxies. Our Sun is a typical star in the Milky Way, our home galaxy, a typical galaxy in the universe. The hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe group into galaxy clusters, forming even larger structures. Other than stars, what constitutes a galaxy? How did galaxies and galaxy clusters form? How did these structures emerge from the almost perfectly uniform distribution in the early universe? ..…
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Ageing: an Inevitable Consequence of All Life?
The concept of ageing is a mysterious process and raises many questions. Why do organisms age? Why do we die at different ages? What are the mechanisms that underlie ageing? This is especially intriguing when scientists observe varying lifespans of one laboratory mice strain, consisting of genetically identical individuals……
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老化 – 所有生命的必然結局？
「老化」是個神秘的過程，而且引發了我們許多疑問。為何生物會老化？為何我們死亡的年齡又各有不同？老化背後又蘊藏著什麼機制？科學家觀察到，一組實驗室小鼠即使基因相同，每隻壽命卻各有不同，令人嘖嘖稱奇…..
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老化 – 所有生命的必然结局？
「老化」是个神秘的过程，而且引发了我们许多疑问。为何生物会老化？为何我们死亡的年龄又各有不同？老化背后又蕴藏著什么机制？科学家观察到，一组实验室小鼠即使基因相同，每只寿命却各有不同，令人啧啧称奇…..
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A Century of Physics – A Public Lecture in Honour of Professor Yang Chen-Ning at One Hundred
Modern physics had its beginnings about a century ago with the birth of quantum mechanics. Over the past few decades, scientists have built on knowledge of electromagnetism to master the laws of the weak and strong interactions….