Nature releases the top ten scientists of the year, Chinese physicist Cao Yuan is on the list
Beijing, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The British journal Nature released its 2018 Science Figures of the Year on Thursday. Each year, the magazine selects 10 people who have had a significant impact on the scientific community, including the most important and controversial scientific events of the year. "The stories of these 10 people encapsulate the most memorable scientific events of 2018, which force us to think about difficult questions about who we really are, where we've come from and where we're going," said Nature's feature editor.
When paleogeneticist Vivian Sloane sequenced the DNA of a 90,000-year-old skeleton, she discovered that it came from a descendant of Neanderthals and the extinct Denisovans. At the age of 22, Chinese physicist Yuan Cao helped discover a way to make graphene superconductive, opening up a whole new field of physics that could eventually help improve the efficiency of energy use and transmission.
Physicist Jess Vedder has made great efforts to improve the status of women and people of color in science. Robert Jane Smith's PlanS open access initiative for scientific papers, spearheaded by Robert Jane Smith, made waves in scientific publishing. Barbara Lee-Winter helped police arrest killers who had committed several murders through publicly available genomic data.
Data-set researcher Anthony Brown and his team have released Gaia's massive tracking of more than a billion stars, a treasure trove of information that is rapidly transforming our understanding of the evolution of the Milky Way. Meanwhile, the Hayabusa-2 mission, led by Japanese scientist Makoto Yoshikawa, visited an asteroid and prepared to bring samples back to Earth.
climate research expert Valerie mason - del mulder at the heart of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc) released the report played a key role, and warned that the temperature reached a change from earth ecosystem level only a dozen years before. Yeo Mei Ying, Malaysia's Minister for Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change, has spearheaded environmental efforts to reduce the use of single-use plastics. Finally, scientist He Jiankui captured global attention when he announced that he had edited the genomes of twin baby girls, a practice that was widely criticized.