http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Many of the battles to desegregate Southern colleges and universities were fought in public, but efforts to desegregate the standardized testing that is often a prerequisite to admission have, until now, received little attention. Now, a new University of Georgia study reveals how two men traveled the Deep South, facing hostility and risking violence, to ensure that students received fair and impartial treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news150739680.html Other Sciences Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:08:00 EST news150739680 A study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, identifies components of black raspberries with chemopreventive potential. http://www.physorg.com/news150615914.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:45:14 EST news150615914 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg problem -- the question of which formed first in the early Universe -- galaxies or the supermassive black holes seen at their cores. http://www.physorg.com/news150486022.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:40:22 EST news150486022 (PhysOrg.com) -- An ongoing X-ray survey undertaken by NASA's Swift spacecraft is revealing differences between nearby active galaxies and those located about halfway across the universe. Understanding these differences will help clarify the relationship between a galaxy and its central black hole. http://www.physorg.com/news150482218.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:36:58 EST news150482218 (PhysOrg.com) -- The center of the Milky Way presents astronomers with a paradox: it holds young stars, but no one is sure how those stars got there. The galactic center is wracked with powerful gravitational tides stirred by a 4 million solar-mass black hole. Those tides should rip apart molecular clouds that act as stellar nurseries, preventing stars from forming in place. Yet the alternative - stars falling inward after forming elsewhere - should be a rare occurrence. http://www.physorg.com/news150383551.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:12:31 EST news150383551 From troubled beginnings nearly 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy and its stunning images have stirred the imaginations of people around the globe. http://www.physorg.com/news149951903.html Space & Earth Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:18:23 EST news149951903 Call her The Incredible Shrinking African-American Woman. In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, beginning with those born in the late 1960s. http://www.physorg.com/news149503893.html Medicine & Health Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:51:33 EST news149503893 Gay and bisexual black men are less likely to be tested for prostate cancer than men of any other racial and ethnic backgrounds regardless of their sexual orientation, according to a recent study by a researcher at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science. http://www.physorg.com/news149344384.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:33:04 EST news149344384 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using only the computing power of 16 Sony Playstation 3 gaming consoles, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, have solved a mystery about the speed at which vibrating black holes stop vibrating. http://www.physorg.com/news149192580.html Physics Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:23:00 EST news149192580 Asian Americans are less attached to their racial identity than black Americans. This finding confirms that minority politics in the United States today is more complex than generally realized and that understanding the increasingly multicultural nature of the U.S. requires perspectives that incorporate, but go beyond, the black historical experience. http://www.physorg.com/news148908146.html Other Sciences Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:22:26 EST news148908146 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have found the most distant water yet seen in the Universe, in a galaxy more than 11 billion light-years from Earth. Previously, the most distant water had been seen in a galaxy less than 7 billion light-years from Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news148753546.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:25:46 EST news148753546 A recent study in the Journal of Political Economy sheds light on the role racial prejudice plays in the wage gap between whites and blacks in the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news148736151.html Other Sciences Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:35:51 EST news148736151 Black holes can now be thought of as donut holes. The shape of material around black holes has been seen for the first time: an analysis of over 200 active galactic nuclei -cores of galaxies powered by disks of hot material feeding a super-massive black hole -shows that all have a consistent, ordered physical structure that seems to be independent of the black hole's size. http://www.physorg.com/news148652427.html Space & Earth Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:20:27 EST news148652427 The team of astronomers from Europe and the US studied the "Einstein Cross", a famous cosmic mirage. This cross-shaped configuration consists of four images of a single very distant source. The multiple images are a result of gravitational lensing by a foreground galaxy, an effect that was predicted by Albert Einstein as a consequence of his theory of general relativity. The light source in the Einstein Cross is a quasar approximately ten billion light-years away, whereas the foreground lensing galaxy is ten times closer. The light from the quasar is bent in its path and magnified by the gravitational field of the lensing galaxy. http://www.physorg.com/news148316066.html Space & Earth Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:54:26 EST news148316066 (PhysOrg.com) -- Now you can find and plug up those leaks around your home once and for all. Black & Decker is offering an innovative leak detector, in about a month and will be price at around $39.99. http://www.physorg.com/news148313983.html Electronics Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:19:43 EST news148313983 By watching the motions of 28 stars orbiting the Milky Way's most central region with admirable patience and amazing precision, astronomers have been able to study the supermassive black hole lurking there. It is known as "Sagittarius A*" (pronounced "Sagittarius A star"). The new research marks the first time that the orbits of so many of these central stars have been calculated precisely and reveals information about the enigmatic formation of these stars - and about the black hole to which they are bound. http://www.physorg.com/news148069800.html Space & Earth Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:30:00 EST news148069800 Is race defined by appearance, or can a person also be colored by socioeconomic status? A new study finds that Americans who are unemployed, incarcerated or impoverished today are more likely to be classified and identified as black, by themselves or by others, regardless of how they were seen -- or self identified -- in the past. http://www.physorg.com/news147980419.html Other Sciences Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:40:19 EST news147980419 Sparkling away at magnitude 3.7 and appearing nearly as large as the full moon on the southern night sky, Omega Centauri is visible with the unaided eye from a clear, dark observing site. Even through a modest amateur telescope, the cluster is revealed as an incredible, densely packed sphere of glittering stars. But astronomers need to use the full power of professional telescopes to uncover the amazing secrets of this beautiful globular cluster. http://www.physorg.com/news147448563.html Space & Earth Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:56:03 EST news147448563 Tufts researchers and colleagues report that place of birth plays a role in the occurrence of asthma in a United States black population. The researchers found that within one inner-city population, blacks born in the United States were more likely to have asthma than blacks who were born outside of the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news147354818.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:53:38 EST news147354818 Race is a powerful determinant of how whites regard a neighborhood, according to a recent study at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Michigan. http://www.physorg.com/news146409063.html Other Sciences Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:11:03 EST news146409063 (PhysOrg.com) -- A detailed analysis of black carbon -- the residue of burned organic matter -- in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating global warming predictions. http://www.physorg.com/news146244148.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:22:28 EST news146244148 (PhysOrg.com) -- The powerful black holes at the center of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters act as hearts to the systems, pumping energy out at regular intervals to regulate the growth of the black holes themselves, as well as star formation, according to new data from NASA`s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. http://www.physorg.com/news146242069.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:47:49 EST news146242069 The team of European and US astronomers used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope, both in Chile, to study light from Sagittarius A* at near-infrared wavelengths and the longer submillimetre wavelengths respectively. This is the first time that astronomers have caught a flare with these telescopes simultaneously. The telescopes' location in the southern hemisphere provides the best vantage point for studying the Galactic Centre. http://www.physorg.com/news146225613.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:13:33 EST news146225613 A research paper, by Dr Stuart Fraser of Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, has found that many Ethnic Minority owned Businesses (EMBs) in the UK struggle to obtain credit in comparison to White owned businesses. Black and Bangladeshi owned businesses are the most likely to be refused credit, facing up to four times as many refusals as white owned businesses. http://www.physorg.com/news146145251.html Other Sciences Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:54:11 EST news146145251 People from black and south Asian communities in the UK are not benefiting as much as white people from doctors' interventions to reduce their blood pressure, according to a new study published today in the journal Annals of Family Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news145557214.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:33:34 EST news145557214 A team of theoretical and experimental physicists, with participants from Case Western Reserve University, have designed a new black hole simulator called BlackMax to search for evidence that extra dimensions might exist in the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news145272828.html Physics Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:33:48 EST news145272828 It took less than a decade for native rats to become extinct on the Indian Ocean's previously uninhabited Christmas Island once Eurasian black rats jumped ship onto the island at the turn of the 20th century. But this story is more than the typical tale of direct competition: according to new genetic research published in PLoS One on November 5, black rats carried a pathogen that exterminated two endemic species, Rattus macleari and R. nativitatis. This study is the first to demonstrate extinction in a mammal because of disease, supporting the hypothesis proposed a decade ago that "hyperdisease conditions" -- unusually rapid mortality from which a species never recovers -can lead to extinction. http://www.physorg.com/news145088302.html Biology Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:18:22 EST news145088302 Both first- and second-generation immigrants to the United Kingdom appear to have a higher risk of psychoses than white British individuals, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.physorg.com/news144950125.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:55:25 EST news144950125 A system of presumed consent for organ donation - where people have to opt out of donating their organs when they die - is the best way to tackle a growing waiting list for transplant. http://www.physorg.com/news144669042.html Medicine & Health Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:50:42 EST news144669042 There's a universal tendency to heed Dylan Thomas's exhortation and go out with a bang instead of a whimper. Nowhere is this more evident than deep in the cosmos. http://www.physorg.com/news143905119.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:38:39 EST news143905119