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Damaging Effects of Unemployment and Unexpected Wealth Losses on Mobility and Economic Security
April 3, 2013 A new study examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks and how those periods of economic uncertainty draw down financial resources. The report studies families across race ... > full story -
Scientists Develop Monkey Model to Study Novel Coronavirus Infection
April 3, 2013 Researchers have developed a model of infection in rhesus macaques that will help scientists around the world better understand how an emerging coronavirus, first identified in Sept. 2012, affects ... > full story -
Physicists Decipher Social Cohesion Issues
April 3, 2013 Migrations happen for a reason, not randomly. A new study, based on computer simulation, attempts to explain the effect of so-called directional migration - migration for a reason - on cooperative ... > full story -
Seismic Hazards: Seismic Simulation Code Speeds Up
April 2, 2013 Scientists have developed a highly scalable computer code that promises to dramatically cut both research times and energy costs in simulating seismic hazards throughout California and ... > full story -
Sorting out Parkinson's Protein Structure: Computer Modeling May Offer Hints for New Drug-Design Strategies
April 1, 2013 Clumps of proteins that accumulate in brain cells are a hallmark of neurological diseases such as dementia, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Over the past several years, there has been ... > full story -
New Mathematical Model Shows How Society Becomes Polarized
April 1, 2013 Engineering researchers have devised a mathematical model that helps demonstrate what's behind the growing rift in American ... > full story -
New Models Predict Drastically Greener Arctic in Coming Decades
March 31, 2013 New research predicts that rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening," or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In a new paper, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas ... > full storyMore: -
Mathematician Publishes 2013 Major League Baseball Projections
March 29, 2013 It looks like 2013 will be a thrilling season for baseball fans as four of the six divisions can be expected to deliver tight races, says a baseball guru and ... > full story -
Teachers' Gestures Boost Math Learning
March 29, 2013 Students perform better when their instructors use hand gestures -- a simple teaching tool that could yield benefits in higher-level math such as ... > full story -
Female Students Just as Successful as Males in Math and Science, Asian-Americans Outperform All
March 29, 2013 While compared to men, women continue to be underrepresented in math and science courses and careers. Is this disparity a true reflection of male and female student ability? According to a new study, ... > full story
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