Americans’ collective memory of school desegregation involves crowds of screaming white protesters. But less well known are the whites who stood by quietly, and those who approved of the changes.
Samantha Lee, The University of Western Australia; David Mackey, The University of Western Australia, and Serena Wee, The University of Western Australia
Understanding your genes is a great way to understand certain things about yourself — yet, who we are is determined by so much more than just DNA.
The temperature of the Sun’s surface is about 6,000°C. But higher above the surface, in the atmosphere, it suddenly shoots up to more than a million degrees!
Cassette tapes were the first great advancement in portable recording and playback. You can draw a direct line between them and the music apps on every smartphone today.
Consuming alcohol makes accidents more likely and it can harm your heart, your liver and even change your brain. But making the sale of beer, wine and hard liquor illegal flopped.
Gravity is something every person on Earth intuitively understands: It is what keeps you on the ground. But how come gravity pulls down, rather than pushes up? Einstein came up with the answer.