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. (AP) -- A global summit of business leaders urged governments to order steep and mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases Tuesday, favoring a cap-and-trade system instead of a tax to set a market price for carbon waste. http://www.physorg.com/news162548865.html Space & Earth Tue, 26 May 2009 09:28:06 EST news162548865 Nearly half of overweight and obese African Americans who completed a 12-week, faith-based program lost 5 percent or more of their body weight and most kept it off for at least six months, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. http://www.physorg.com/news155914019.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:28:01 EST news155914019 Followers are just as important to good leadership as are the leaders themselves, reveals a new study of stickleback fish published online on January 29th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. http://www.physorg.com/news152458245.html Biology Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:31:43 EST news152458245 A new narrowband radio interferometer system has been developed for continuous observation of various processes of a lightning discharge at a time resolution of one microsecond. By using this system, a cloud-to-ground lightning flash containing 19 strokes was observed in inland plateau area of China. Detailed analysis of this lightning flash has revealed several new remarkable characteristics of cloud-to-ground lightning. http://www.physorg.com/news145096396.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:33:16 EST news145096396 Leaders in health care and health care policy feel strongly that the way we pay for health care in the U.S. must be fundamentally reformed. The latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey reports that more than two-thirds (69%) of respondents expressed strong dissatisfaction with the current system, which is generally based on "fee-for-service" payment, saying the current system is not effective in encouraging high quality and efficient care. http://www.physorg.com/news144946516.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:55:16 EST news144946516 When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups. Narcissism is a trait in which people are self-centered, exaggerate their talents and abilities, and lack empathy for others. http://www.physorg.com/news142607754.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:15:54 EST news142607754 (PhysOrg.com) -- Despite decades of progress for minorities in corporate settings, Americans still expect business leaders to be white, and they judge white leaders as more effective than their minority counterparts. This is according to research published in the July issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology by professors from Duke University, the University of Toronto and Northwestern University. http://www.physorg.com/news135358496.html Other Sciences Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:34:56 EST news135358496