A new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts, "Making Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment," examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks and how those periods of economic uncertainty ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Apr 03, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) —Daniel Perlman is a senior research scientist whose work has resulted in about 100 published patents and pending patents in the field of applied research. His current work focuses on nutritionally ...

Technology - Engineering

Mar 29, 2013 not rated yet 0

New research shows the dramatic gap in household wealth that now exists along racial lines in the United States cannot solely be attributed to personal ambition and behavioral choices, but rather reflects policies and institutional ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Feb 27, 2013 not rated yet 0

Valerie Marchenko '13 was a competitive figures skater for most of her life before Brandeis. She says it would have been nice to make the cover of Skating Magazine.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Feb 08, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) -- Actin filaments are one of the primary elements responsible for organizing cell architecture and helping them to move from one place to the next. They can be found in the smallest yeast cell and in your muscles, ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- On a mission to manipulate microscale structures of materials, researchers engineer new methods of controlling surface tension.

Physics - Soft Matter

Jan 10, 2012 4.8 / 5 (5) 6 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antibiotics are used for everything from squelching strep throat to suppressing the immune system after an organ transplant. Many antibiotics are produced by molds similar to those found on ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Dec 12, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

Studies of a protein that fruit flies use to sense heat and chemicals may someday provide solutions to human pain and the control of disease-spreading mosquitoes.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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The Great Recession and the currently tepid economic recovery swelled the ranks of American households confronting hunger and food insecurity by 30 percent. In 2010 48.8 million Americans lived in food insecure households, ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Oct 05, 2011 not rated yet 1

Every cell in the human body contains a complex system to transport essential cargoes such as proteins and membrane vesicles from one point to another. These tiny molecular motor proteins move at high speeds on miniature ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Sep 02, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cilia, tiny hair-like structures that perform feats such as clearing microscopic debris from the lungs and determining the correct location of organs during development, move in mysterious ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Jul 27, 2011 4.2 / 5 (5) 5 |

Outliving one's resources and falling into poverty is an increasingly common experience among today's senior citizens, according to a new report produced jointly by the Heller School's Institute on Assets and Social Policy ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Jul 19, 2011 not rated yet 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Irv Epstein's research is proving that patterns found in mathematical formulas and chemical reactions may be used to understand economics, how an epidemic might spread and the way animal populations survive ...

Chemistry - Other

Mar 25, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's like Confucius says: Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Mar 14, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

From neurosurgery to bar code readers, lasers have been used in a myriad of applications since they were first introduced in the late 1950's. Now, with the work being done in Jeff Gelles' Lab at Brandeis University, ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 10, 2011 not rated yet 0 |