News tagged with black girls


Black girls who use marijuana engage in riskier sex, have higher STD rate

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 05, 2008 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (15) | comments 10

Black girls who use marijuana are more likely to engage in risky sexual acts and contract a sexually transmitted disease, a new study finds.


Black girls are 50 percent more likely to be bulimic than white girls

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An important new study challenges the widespread perception that bulimia primarily affects privileged, white teenagers such as "Gossip Girl" character Blair Waldorf, who battled bulimia on the show earlier this season.





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An undated photo shows then director of Sukhumi's monkey nursery, Sergei Ardzimba, feeding his monkeys

War-torn 'nursery' hopes to send monkeys to Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 11 hours ago | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

The monkeys at this run-down research centre which was once the pride of Soviet science have seen it all -- a brutal civil war, freezing winters and starvation.


Video game watchdog shuts down, victim of economy

Technology / Other

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- David Walsh said when he was assembling his first report card on video game violence 13 years ago, children were attacking on-screen monsters or aliens with imaginary chain saws and guns.


Free after 35 years: DNA clears Florida inmate (AP)

Free after 35 years: DNA clears Florida inmate

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(AP) -- For years, James Bain insisted he was home watching TV with his twin sister when a 9-year-old boy was kidnapped and raped.


Rate of autism disorders climbs to 1 percent among 8-year-olds

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 11

Autism and related development disorders are becoming more common, with a prevalence rate approaching 1 percent among American 8-year-olds, according to new data from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham ...


Pores finding reveals targets for cancer and degenerative disease

Pores finding reveals targets for cancer and degenerative disease

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have identified a key step in the biological process of programmed cell death, also called apoptosis.


New study finds gender divide in children's use of cell phone features (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's a given that many children will ask their parents for cell phones this Christmas. Now, a recent study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) sociologist Shelia Cotten, Ph.D., finds that the way the kids will use ...


Studying how black holes grow

Studying how black holes grow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...


YouTube music label means all artists are with the bandwidth

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Craig Benzine had weathered almost 10 years with his band, Chicago-based indie rockers Driftless Pony Club -- self-releasing two albums along the way -- with no luck.


Nonverbal communication of race bias on TV influences viewers' own bias

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Subtle patterns of nonverbal behavior that appear on popular television programs influence racial bias among viewers, according to research from Tufts University to appear in the December 18, 2009, issue of the journal Science.


NASA NuSTAR Telescope Being Built at Nevis

NASA NuSTAR Telescope Being Built at Nevis

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's an unlikely place to build a NASA telescope: a leafy estate in Irvington, N.Y., that once belonged to the son of Alexander Hamilton. Inside a hangar-like building on the site, which is ...



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