The phrase "scientific first" is not correct or usable in written English.
Instead, you could use phrases such as "first and foremost," "in the first place," or "firstly" as a way to introduce a sentence or phrase. For example: Firstly, the scientific community must come together to find solutions to climate change.
With the help of an algorithm and some electrodes, he would move his once-dead limb again – a scientific first.
"This is a flagship project, a scientific first, but also a symbol that it isn't all hopeless: we don't have to stand by helplessly watching species and habitat being lost".
In a scientific first, and a coup for science in Brazil, a team of more than 200 researchers there has for the first time deciphered the complete DNA sequence of an organism that causes a plant disease.
On 1 December 1783, a crowd of 400,000 Parisians - half the city's population - gathered in the Tuileries Gardens to watch a scientific first: a manned ascent in a hydrogen balloon.
Boston Scientific first recalled a limited number of the Taxus stents on July 2, after some doctors reported difficulties removing the balloon used to inflate the stent in the patient's artery.
A sea slug from the Great Barrier Reef, so small that one would never notice it with the naked eye, has been caught on video in a mating behavior so extreme that it appears to be a scientific first.
Venter aims to validate his role in the genome contest, defend his motives, settle scores and recount a career that produced several other scientific firsts.
Whether you believe it's a scientific sixth sense or a mystical connection to the divine, every person alive has the power of intuition.
In addition, the protocol has been reviewed and funded by a scientific third party funding (grants from Nationales Centrum fuer Tumorerkrankungen (NCT /Tumorzentrum Heidelberg and Kompetenzverbund Strahlenforschung (KVSF, 03NUK004A,C) of Bundesministerien fuer Bildung, Forschung und Umwelt (BMBF/BMU)).
The scholarly journal, the classic medium of scientific communication, first appeared in 1665.
When the scientific world first grappled with the potential problems of genetic technology, the approach was very different.
