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Science Focus Issue 016, 2019
What’s Happening in Hong Kong? 香港科技活動 Amusing World of Science 趣味科學
Wonders of the Moon 1 The Science of Sunscreen 8
月亮奇蹟 防曬霜的科學
Becoming Jane – Inspiring a Shared Planet Cells at Work! – All About Hematology 10
珍古德的叢林啟迪 工作細胞 — 認識血液學
Winter Games Behind the Transformative Power of Lipsticks 14
冬季冰運會 綻放生命色彩的唇膏
Quantum Mechanics – Your Eyes Can Kill 18
Science in History 昔日科學 Schrödinger's Cat
The Square Root of Two – at the Cost of a Life 2 量子力學 — 你的雙眼能殺死薛丁格的貓
根號 2 — 探求真理的代價
Who’s Who? 科學巨人
Science Today 今日科學 Q&A with HKUST Scientists 22
Touch Screens 4 科大科學家問與答
輕觸式屏幕
Edible Water Bottle 6 Cryptology in Biology: The Genetic Code 26
生物解碼:遺傳密碼
可以食用的「水樽」
Acknowledgements 特別鳴謝
Message from the Editor-in-Chief 主編的話
Dear Readers, 親愛的讀者:
Welcome to the latest issue of Science Focus. This issue marked our first 歡迎閱讀最新一期《科言》!今期我們與日本人氣動漫
major collaboration with an external party, the creators of the very popular 《工作細胞》合作,亦是《科言》首次與其他機構舉辦的聯
Japanese comic series Cells at Work! We hope the animation programs and our 乘活動。我們希望這套動畫和今期相關的文章會使您對血
article will motivate you to learn more about how blood cells keep us alive and 液學產生興趣,並嘗試了解血細胞們如何使我們能精力充沛
kicking. We also cover the intriguing chemistry on products that we put on our 地過每一天。此外,您們對塗在皮膚上的產品,例如唇膏和
skin. On physics, we present a lighter treatment on quantum mechanics. Finally, 太陽油,背後的化學原理了解有多深?在物理科學方面,我
many of you have learned the Pythagoras theorem. But as a mathematician, 們會深入淺出地向您展現「入門版」的量子力學。最後,您們
was Pythagoras always right? Please head to the Science in History section for 都有學過畢氏定理吧;但作為一個數學家,畢達哥拉斯是否
answer. 永遠都是對的呢?您可以在「昔日科學」的部分找出答案。
We encourage you to continue visiting our social media pages on 我 們 鼓 勵 大 家 繼 續 留 意 我 們 的 Facebook 和
Facebook and Instagram. Earlier this summer, we have identified the first Instagram。在較早前我們已經選出了《科言》Instagram
winner of our Instagram Photo Competition. Congratulations to Fontaine 攝 影 比賽的 第一 位優 勝 者:恭 喜 德 瑞 國際 學 校 的 學 生
Gibbs from the German Swiss International School. Her interpretation of neural Fontaine Gibbs !她 巧 妙 地 把 神 經 發 展 詮 釋 為「綠 色
development as being “green” really stood out. Please stay tuned for our next (green)」的過程,其論述脫穎而出,確實值得嘉許。請大
round of competition! 家也要密切留意下回比賽的最新消息。
Finally, I would like to wish you success in the new school year. Stay curious! 最後,我希望大家有一個愉快的新學年,也要時常保持
Yours faithfully, 對事物的好奇心啊!
Prof. Ho Yi Mak 主編 麥晧怡教授
Editor-in-Chief
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Scientific Advisors 科學顧問 Student Editorial Board 學生編委
Dr. Jason Chan 陳鈞傑博士 Editor-in-Chief 主編輯 Editors 編輯 Reporter 記者
Prof. Simon Chan 陳雲教授 Prof. Ho Yi Mak 麥晧怡教授 Teresa Fan 樊銘姍 Chih-yu Lee 李致宇
Eunice Lam 林杏妍
Prof. Pak Wo Leung 梁伯和教授 Managing Editors 總編輯 Henry Lau 劉以軒 Graphic Designers 設計師
Prof. Tim Leung 梁承裕教授 Daniel Lau 劉劭行 Yasine Malki 馬建生 Sirinant Khunakornbodintr 吳譪恩
Prof. Kam Sing Wong 黃錦聖教授 Twinkle Poon 潘晴 Bryan Siu 蕭浩延
Chantelle Sullivan 蘇盈安 Joni Tang 鄧采瑩
Clara Tung 董卓衡 Lynn Zhang 張海琳
Nicole Wu 胡欣蕾
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