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Study: Americans Expect Business Leaders to Be White

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(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 ...





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Michelle Bachelet as seen from a video camera speaking at a press conference

Chile to adopt Japanese digital TV standard: Bachelet

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chile will adopt the Japanese digital television standard ISDB-T, which is high-definition capable, joining neighboring Peru and Argentina, President Michelle Bachelet said Monday.


Professor: Fear, Shame Keep Homeowners From Defaulting

Professor: Fear, Shame Keep Homeowners From Defaulting

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brent T. White, a University of Arizona associate professor of law, said policymakers must consider ways that emotions drive financial decisions.


Race and gender determine how politicians speak

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Race and gender influence the way politicians speak, which is not always to their advantage. Camelia Suleiman from Florida International University and Daniel O'Connell from Georgetown University in the US have come to this ...


Emerging imaging modalities impact diagnosis of digestive disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recent advances in colonoscopic technology are featured in a number of studies presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology this week. In this research some technologies fare better ...


XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone

XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular ...


Unusual supernovae may reveal intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters

Unusual supernovae may reveal intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 0

A strange and violent fate awaits a white dwarf star that wanders too close to a moderately massive black hole. According to a new study, the black hole's gravitational pull on the white dwarf would cause ...


Quantum computing: Entanglement may not be necessary

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 05, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (63) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a truth universally acknowledged that quantum computing must have entanglement.


Trapping white blood cells proves novel strategy against chronic viral infections

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Seeing disease-fighting white blood cells vanish from the blood usually signals a weakened immune system. But preventing white blood cells' circulation by trapping them in the lymph nodes can help mice get rid of a chronic ...


Standards Set for Energy-Conserving LED Lighting

Standards Set for Energy-Conserving LED Lighting

Electronics /

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 10

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with national standards organizations, have taken the lead in developing the first two standards for solid-state lighting ...


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Israeli scientists find way to combat forged DNA

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Israeli scientists have developed new technology to fight biological identity theft after realising that DNA evidence found at crime scenes can be easily falsified.



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