US is still first in science, but China rose fast as funding stalled here & elsewhere

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) American scientific teams still publish significantly more biomedical research discoveries than teams from any other country, a new study shows, and the US still leads the world in research and development expenditures. But American dominance is slowly shrinking, the analysis finds, as China's skyrocketing investing on science over the last two decades begins to pay off.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2rk7YXl