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These numbers reflect a nationwide gender gap in higher education, where black women make up the majority--63 percent--of black student enrollment at colleges and universities, according to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education...
Over the past 20 years, the number of blacks in higher education has increased by 40 percent--and women have accounted for 75 percent of those gains, according to The Journal...
...until now, anyway. Geneticist Edward Fugger and his colleagues at Genetics & IVF Institute, a fertility center in Fairfax, Va., surprised the obstetrical world last week with a report in the journal Human Reproduction asserting that the clinic can offer couples an 85% chance of ensuring they will have a girl. "I'm impressed," says Dr. Alan DeCherney, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine and editor of the journal Fertility and Sterility. "It really seems to work...
Next time, think twice before calling someone a "birdbrain." A new study published in the journal Nature Thursday suggests our feathered friends are a lot smarter than we thought -- at least when it comes to remembering where they put that nice, juicy bug. Behavioral scientists studying scrub jays said that the birds displayed what is known as episodic, or event-based, memory. The jays were able to remember which side of a tray their larva was buried on, and how long ago they put it there; if the larva was past its sell-by date, the birds didn't even...
...study, published in the Journal of American College Health, calls binge drinking "by far the single most serious public-health problem confronting American colleges...