If you dislike watching sport as much as I do then you'll be glad to hear this isn't a reference to the Beijing Olympics... Physics World has reported that physics in China is booming. Chinese scientists now publish more papers than the UK and Germany. In fact, at the current rate, by 2012 it will be churning out more physics articles than the entire number of science articles published by US researchers.
Werner Marx, an information scientist from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, said, "Usually scientific development in nations does not show such a strong acceleration as we have seen in China, so it will be interesting to see how it responds and develops in the future."
Apparently, cutting-edge subjects are the most popular amongst Chinese scientists, such as nanoscience, quantum computing and high-temperature superconductivity.
Meanwhile, here in England one in four schools no longer has a specialist physics teacher... I'm not drawing any conclusions from these two unrelated facts, I'm just saying, that's all...
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