The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the highest academic institutions in China, unveiled on January 19 the top 10 news events on domestic science and technology progress for the year 2012. The discovery of a new kind of neutrino transformation from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment was on top of the list. 

The 10 news events were selected via a vote by academicians from the both organizations. Previously, the Daya Bay experimental results had been announced as the top ten science Breakthroughs of the Year 2012 by Science Magazine. The results suggest that in the coming decades, neutrino physics will be as rich as physicists have hoped for and may even help explain how the universe evolved to contain so much matter and so little antimatter.

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is a China-based multinational particle physics project studying neutrinos. The collaboration includes researchers from China, the United States, China's Taiwan, and the Czech Republic. The U.S. side of the project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of High Energy Physics.