Does science editorialize? Science does. The academic journal just moved gun control from a public-policy dispute to a scientific question. Without citing any data, Science declared science firmly ...

On Monday, seven people were killed in a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Illinois. Data from the CDC shows that nearly 40,000 people in the US die from firearms every year. Despite ...

In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court extended the right to bear arms to every corner of the country. The landmark case effectively limited the ability of state and local entities to restrict gun ownership ...

Science Magazine editor-in-chief H. Holden Thorp recently declared that researchers need to get off the sidelines and into the gun-control debate. His call to action was wrong in every possible way.

In November 2024, as he awaited the fallout from the presidential election results, Dr. Garen Wintemute gathered a group of his colleagues at UC Davis to plan how they would download the thousands of ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! What if there were no guns? What would that world look like? The University City ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill will review a gun-free zone downtown around the Lafayette Science Museum to "make sure citizens' constitutional rights are being upheld." Murrill, in a statement ...

Experts have repeatedly shown that mental health issues are not predictive of violence. What science has demonstrated, however, is that the number of gun deaths in the US is much higher than in other ...