It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, ‘My God what have I done?
This map shows the growth in scientific research of territories between 2005 and 2015. If there was no increase in scientific publications that territory has no area on the map.
This increase was experienced primarily in territories with strong existing scientific research. However, the United States, with the highest total publications in 2015, experienced a smaller increase since 2005 than that in China or India.
