Given the grim economic climate and even grimmer forecasts for the future, itâ??s not hard to predict that the U.S. will lose its status as the worldâ??s preeminent superpower. But will we fall behind in science as well? J. Rogers Hollingsworth, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks so. He and a group of historians and sociologists think that the countryâ??s diminishing lead over other nations in science investment and research output mirrors the downfall of preceding science juggernauts like France, Germany and Britain. History, they say, is primed to repeat itself.
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