Science Leader No More? China Challenges US Dominance

The United States still leads the world in scientific research, at least in publishing the most biomedical studies in top-tier journals and spending the most money on research and development (R&D).America's dominance in the scientific world is slowly shrinking, the researchers found, largely because China has invested vast amounts of money in science over the past two decades.In 2015, China's biomedical research teams ranked No. 4 on the top 10 list for the total number of new discoveries p