Newly digitized mortgage records from 38 US states reveal the profound racial inequality of two mortgage programmes during the 1930s and 1940s. These loans, supported by the Federal Housing ...

Scientists have rewritten the story of gallium after discovering that its unusual atomic bonds re-form at high temperatures, contradicting decades of accepted theory. The finding changes how ...

A longitudinal study of Italian students revealed a significant negative effect of early use of social media on later academic performance during lower-secondary school years (grades 6 to 8 in Italy, ...

About half of Americans are middle class, according to the Pew Research Center. Definitions of the middle class may depend on income, assets or job status. Given current economic conditions, being ...

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