The right ties can save lives and move mountains

Article Abstract:

International scientific collaboration is providing benefits to Chinese scientists and researchers in other countries. A French drug company is funding a pain research center in China. Another example is an international astronomical project is using data collected by a Chinese telescope.

International aspects, Cancer research, Pain, Cancer, Astronomical research, Geophysical research

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The long march to topnotch science

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China is attempting to improve basic research programs and reform the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but efforts are hampered by a bureaucratic research management system. One innovative program is the National Natural Science Foundation, which makes grants to individual and group projects

Management, Research institutes, Science and state, Science policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Reading the tea leaves in a list of major priorities

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Big-science projects that China plans to fund by 2000 are focused on basic physical science. They include a new reflecting Schmidt telescope, an advanced synchrotron light source ad an upgrade of a superconducting tokamak reactor.

Planning, Synchrotron, Synchrotrons, Physical sciences, Particle accelerators, Tokamaks, Schmidt telescope, Catadioptric telescopes

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