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 ...

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.

As illustrated by the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas this week, gun violence is a pervasive issue in the United States. The entire Science Friday team extends our condolences to everyone affected by ...

An analysis published Friday confirms the state of American gun policy science is not good, overall. The nonprofit RAND Corporation analyzed thousands of studies and found only 63 that establish a ...

Let’s not surrender to pessimism about the political standoff over addressing our country’s gun violence epidemic. There is still something our political leaders agree on when it comes to gun safety ...

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 ...