"scientific milestone" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a significant event in scientific progress or a major scientific achievement. For example: The invention of the microscope was a scientific milestone that allowed mankind to see the world on a microscopic scale.
THE sequencing of the 3 billion letters of the human genome was a scientific milestone.
Not surprisingly, the detection has been hailed as a scientific milestone and made headlines round the world.
Market analysts said investors were cashing in on gains, anticipating that it might be a while before the genomics companies turned a profit on the scientific milestone.
The Gates Foundation called the trial "an important scientific milestone" for demonstrating that developing a vaccine against a parasite is possible.
This month, however, the world is likely to reach a scientific milestone that appears impressively scary even to those with only a cursory knowledge of climate science.
If the German team succeeds, he added, it will mark a cultural as well as a scientific milestone, illustrating the extent to which private citizens can chart the course of space exploration.
The changing of the world is expressed in more ways than scientific milestones or industrial statistics.
Below, we provide Scientific Milestones, Research Histories and partial historical staff listings.
Correction: November 18 , 2003 Tuesday A picture in Science Times last Tuesday with a chart showing scientific milestones of the last 25 years was published in error.
His written account of the experiment in 1671 is among the oldest in a collection of scientific milestones described in Letters to the Royal Society, which are made public today to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Britain's academy of science.
Here are seven stories that give a good snapshot of the political, economic and scientific milestones that changed the way we view – and the way we deal with – global warming.
