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Racial Segregation Fuels Early Black-White Achievement Gap, Data Suggest

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Racial segregation of schools, and thereby segregated neighborhoods, appears to be a leading source of academic achievement disparities between young black and white children, according to research by sociologist Dennis J. ...


Roommate assignments key in increasing interracial friendships in college

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

White students generally increased their number of interracial friendships during their first year of college, while black students showed a slight decrease, according to a study at one highly selective private university.


Income gap between whites, Latinos has grown at four-year colleges

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past three decades, the income disparity between Latino and non-Hispanic white students entering four-year colleges and universities has increased fourfold, with the difference in median household ...





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A mathematical model of a simple circuit in a chicken brain raises fundamental questions about our understanding of neural circu

Mathematical model of a simple circuit in a chicken brain raises fundamental questions

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Web site Neuroanthropology asks visitors to complete this quote, "One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is ...". In addition to the typical facetious remarks, such as "so ...


Just in time for Black Friday: students turn iPhone into barcode scanner

Just in time for Black Friday: students turn iPhone into barcode scanner

Technology / Software

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Comparing prices over the Internet has become a common practice for consumers. Now, just in time for Black Friday, a group of Missouri University of Science and Technology students is putting ...


Probing Question: What is a heritage turkey?

Probing Question: What is a heritage turkey?

Biology / Other

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over 45 million turkeys are eaten by Americans each Thanksgiving, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hunters provide some -- last autumn, about 24,000 wild turkeys were harvested ...


Creation of new school districts in US may cause a new form of segregation

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Although the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 overturned segregation within many U.S. metropolitan communities and districts, school districts were slow to change and have remained segregated between districts. ...


Study looks at scientific, cultural perspectives on race

Biology / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study compares personal perceptions of race, color and ancestry of Brazilian high school students with the results of genetic ancestry tests, with the aim of investigating the tensions between cultural ...


Researchers find inflammation critical in aortic dissection

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The aorta, the body's largest artery, stretches from the chest to below the kidneys, expanding and contracting with the pressure of blood driven directly into it by the heart. Although its walls are extraordinarily strong, ...


Study links genetic variation to individual empathy, stress levels

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers have discovered a genetic variation that may contribute to how empathetic a human is, and how that person reacts to stress. In the first study of its kind, a variation in the hormone/neurotransmitter oxytocin's ...


Athletes on performance enhancers more likely to abuse alcohol, other drugs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

College athletes who use performance-enhancing substances may be at heightened risk of misusing alcohol and using recreational drugs as well, according to new research in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.


Members of an Australian college have provoked outrage after they launched a "pro-rape" group on website Facebook

Australian students 'pro-rape' Facebook scandal

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Members of an elite Australian college linked to Sydney University provoked outrage Tuesday after it was revealed they had set up a "pro-rape" group on social networking site Facebook.


New type of supernova explosion reported; predicted by theoretical physicists at UCSB

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their t ...



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