Michaelangelica Posted January 24, 2010 Report Posted January 24, 2010 China will be new science powerhouse Source: New Scientist 12 January 2010 | EN | 中文sciencejournals_flickr_cudmore.jpg Last year China produced more than 120,000 research articles, second only to the United States Flickr/cudmore China is rapidly becoming a regionally-networked scientific superpower that does not merely rely on links to European and US institutions that have traditionally led the science world, says Jonathan Adams. The country's spending on science research and development between 1995 and 2006 grew at an annual rate of 18 per cent — faster than any European country and slower only than Japan and the United States. Last year, China produced more than 120,000 research articles, up from 20,000 in 1998, second only to the United States. China will be new science powerhouse - SciDev.Net Quote
maikeru Posted January 27, 2010 Report Posted January 27, 2010 How will the pursuit of science hold up as it pursues truth and pushes the limits of what we know? Science tends to overturn the status quo rather than maintain it. Michaelangelica 1 Quote
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