http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The achievement gap in academic performance between academically at-risk minorities and white students has concerned educators for decades now. It's a troubling fact that Latino Americans and African Americans, for example, earn lower grades on average than their white peers and are much more likely to drop out of high school. http://phys.org/news280146484.html Other Sciences Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:40:11 EST news280146484 ABC News and the Spanish-language media group Univision unveiled plans Monday for a new Web service and cable television channel for US Hispanics, mainly in English. http://phys.org/news255604932.html Technology Mon, 07 May 2012 10:40:03 EST news255604932 Just a few minutes of listening to mainstream rock music was enough to influence white college students to favor a student group catering mostly to whites over groups serving other ethnic and racial groups, a new study found. http://phys.org/news250186719.html Other Sciences Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:18:49 EST news250186719 People preferentially marry those with similar ancestry, but their decisions are not necessarily based on hair, eye or skin colour. Research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, shows that Mexicans mate according to proportions of Native American to European ancestry, while Puerto Ricans are more likely to settle down with someone carrying a similar mix of African and European genes. http://phys.org/news177917997.html Biology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:40:44 EST news177917997