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今日中國培育出全球最多科學家，水平亦是全世界數一數二，他們引領著醫學、機械人學、射電天文學、高能物理學、量子計算機及宇宙學等等領域。從深海到外太空，他們都站在人類探索的前方。他們的工作不止正在塑造中國的未來，更是人類的未來。
Today China produces more scientists than any other country. And many of them are leading their fields; pushing advances in medicine, food production, robotics, radio astronomy, high energy physics, deep sea research, quantum computing and cosmology. And from deep sea to the deep space, they are at the vanguard of human exploration.
Their work is not only shaping the future of China, but the future for all of us.
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科技通常都是逐步發展的，但科學及工程學某些領域正準備迎來飛躍式的進步，將會為世界帶來翻天覆地的改變。本集將介紹三位引領這些領域的中國科學家及工程師。量子物理學催生出一門名爲量子信息學的科學分支，包括中國在内的許多國家都爭相開展研究。與許多西方國家一樣，中國亦一直在研發先進的語音識別系統，結合人工智能演算法，已經開始將其應用到教育及醫療診斷等各個領域中。工業機械人技術是中國近幾十年的另一項偉大創新，加速了它在全球工廠中的應用，將會在未來改變我們所有人的工作方式。
Technology usually advances in small steps, but there are spheres of science and engineering which are on the brink of making giant leaps that could change the world in dramatic ways. This is the story of three Chinese scientists and engineers who are leading such fields. Quantum physics has given rise to a new branch of science called quantum information, which many countries, including China, are now racing to develop. Like many western countries China has also been building advanced voice recognition systems, and coupled with the algorithms of artificial intelligence, they are already putting these to use to revolutionise everything from teaching to medical diagnostics. Industrial robotics is China’s other great innovation of the past few decades, accelerating their adoption in factories around the world; in a movement that will change the way we all work in coming years.
預告
科學在過去數百年皆是最能推動社會改變的力量，當中不少進步也是來自純科學研究，皆在追求知識，非以應用價值為考慮。在此單元我們將介紹三位投身純科學研究的中國科學家，細看他們眼中的深空、深海以及原子世界：先回顧興建世上最大型、將能令人類已知脈衝星數目翻倍的無線電望遠鏡的艱巨過程，然後來見證建造位於南中國地底深處、敏感度足以測量次原子粒子質量的微中子探測器所面對的重重挑戰，最後我們將跟隨航海工程師兼潛水員闖進深海，一看他如何研發尖端新型潛艇，讓科學家能定期探索前人未至的深海水域。
Science is the driving force that’s changed society the most in the last few centuries. Many of these advances have come from pure science research, done simply in the pursuit of knowledge, without applications in mind. This is the story of three Chinese scientists who’ve devoted their lives to pure scientific research; looking deeper into the Cosmos, the ocean, and the atom. We reveal just what it took to build the world’s largest radio telescope; set to double the number of pulsars discovered in our galaxy. We follow the challenges of constructing the world’s most sensitive neutrino detector, deep underground in Southern China, that’s designed to measure the mass of these elusive subatomic particles. And we dive to the deep ocean with an aquanaut and marine engineer, who’s creating a new type of submarine for regular trips to the largely unexplored deep sea floor.
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技術飛躍 Giant Leaps
科技通常都是逐步發展的，但科學及工程學某些領域正準備迎來飛躍式的進步，將會為世界帶來翻天覆地的改變。本集將介紹三位引領這些領域的中國科學家及工程師。量子物理學催生出一門名爲量子信息學的科學分支，包括中國在内的許多國家都爭相開展研究。與許多西方國家一樣，中國亦一直在研發先進的語音識別系統，結合人工智能演算法，已經開始將其應用到教育及醫療診斷等各個領域中。工業機械人技術是中國近幾十年的另一項偉大創新，加速了它在全球工廠中的應用，將會在未來改變我們所有人的工作方式。
Technology usually advances in small steps, but there are spheres of science and engineering which are on the brink of making giant leaps that could change the world in dramatic ways. This is the story of three Chinese scientists and engineers who are leading such fields. Quantum physics has given rise to a new branch of science called quantum information, which many countries, including China, are now racing to develop. Like many western countries China has also been building advanced voice recognition systems, and coupled with the algorithms of artificial intelligence, they are already putting these to use to revolutionise everything from teaching to medical diagnostics. Industrial robotics is China’s other great innovation of the past few decades, accelerating their adoption in factories around the world; in a movement that will change the way we all work in coming years.24/06/2024收看 -
以食為天 Farming Frontiers
全球人口在2025年將會達到一百億，如何為全球人口提供糧食是世界各地需要面對的最大挑戰之一。未來三十年來，我們所需要生產的糧食量相等於人類歷史上生產的食物量的總和。我們會分享三位中國科學家在務農及畜牧方面的突破。他們的研究包括為農作物進行基因編輯，以改善抗病能力及延長保質期，以及改佔地少的善垂直農場環境，以種植更多不同的農作物。他們的努力已經改善了全球的糧食生產。而利用大數據及人工智能，科學家亦正改變養豬方法，包括以演算法控制餵食量及檢測健康情況來防治豬瘟等疾病。
One of the greatest problems facing society today is how to feed a population set to reach ten billion by 2050. We will need to produce as much food in the next thirty years as we have done in all human history. This is the story of three scientists in China who are pushing new frontiers in farming to rise to this challenge. From the genetic editing of crops, to improve their disease resistance and prolong produce shelf life, to increasing the diversity of crops grown inside space saving vertical farms, their work is already having an impact on food production around the world. And through the surprising application of big data and artificial intelligence pig farming is also being transformed; as algorithms regulate feeding and monitor animal health, to guard against diseases such as Swine Flu.24/06/2024收看
