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4-Winged Dinosaur Fossil Found
Anonymous Coward writes "Scientists in China say they have found fossilized remains of a dinosaur with four feathered wings that it probably used for gliding, a find they say strengthens the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. See the story on CNN or BBC with a cool rendering of what it possibly looked like or at NYTimes (yadda)."
China is a scientific nation, you can't move at most scientific conferences without bumping into a large contingent who are either directly from China or who are researching in Western Unis.
Yes, but why, if China is so scientific, do they have to come to the West to actually do their research?
I'm not down on the Chinese people, but China as a nation has historically not been a great place to innovate from. Could be down to Communism, could be Confucian tradition, could be simply the sheer size of China made collaboration difficult.
How many people from _your_ alma mater have been published in Nature ?
A search for UCL gives 112 matches on that site. Off the top of my head, UCL ranks second in the world (behind Harvard) for volume of research publications in all fields. You were saying?