Background checks alone might not be enough to reduce shooting deaths in the United States, a new study warns. States that require gun permits, rather than relying solely on universal background ...

States that require background checks before people buyguns or ammunition may have a lower chance of having a school shooting, a new study finds. Researchers found that over a three-year period, ...

Passing federal laws that require universal background checks for firearm purchases, background checks on ammunition purchases and firearm identification could reduce the rate of U.S. gun deaths by ...

Strict gun laws passed in two states to require background checks for every firearm sale had virtually no effect, a new study has found. Gun violence experts from the Center for Gun Policy and ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded project, Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal Study, or RURAL, seeks to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and ...

Which children work harder at school, and what do their efforts have to do with their social background? Until now, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Yet, in at least one case, an attempt to dislodge a myth had a curious boomerang effect: The media reverb interpreted the study ...

Less than 15 percent of board members overseeing the nation’s top hospitals have a professional background in healthcare, while more than half have a background in finance or business services, ...

In a new study, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego found that the background music in shark documentaries affects viewers’ perceptions of ...

Before you hop on your next Zoom call, you might want to tailor your background in a very particular way, says a new study. Doing so could make everyone else on the call perceive you as being more ...