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Demonstrators during a rally calling for action on gun safety on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, May 26, 2022.??In the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 students and two teachers were killed, students across the country are once again planning to walk out as a form of political action against gun violence.??Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Which US laws have been shown to cut gun violence and mass shootings?

27 May 2022

In the aftermath of yet another school shooting, many people in the US are desperate for solutions to the country’s gun violence epidemic. Andrew Morral from the research initiative Gun Policy in America discusses the latest evidence on which interventions...


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Marjan Minnesma: Climate litigation pioneer wins environmental prize

25 May 2022

The 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to Marjan Minnesma, who sued the Dutch government over its carbon emissions plans


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Florian Solzbacher interview: Mind-reading implant may soon go on sale

24 December 2021

The president of Blackrock Neurotech says the company’s brain-computer interface, designed for people who are paralysed, could be available in 2022 if regulators approve it


Jenson Button in Extreme E car

Jenson Button: ‘Extreme E is great racing without combustion engines’

21 December 2021

Extreme E, an off-road racing series that started this year, aims to prove that internal combustion engines are no longer required in motor sport. New Scientist spoke to Jenson Button about the burgeoning sport


fruit flies

Animal culture is so common that even fish and flies have it

1 April 2021

Culture was once thought to be restricted to humans, then it was shown in apes and whales – now we are finding evidence of it throughout the animal kingdom


Wellington, New Zealand, in May as restrictions began to be eased

Why New Zealand decided to go for full elimination of the coronavirus

23 June 2020

Michael Baker, the doctor who devised New Zealand’s aggressive coronavirus response, explains what inspired his successful strategy.


Hopkins river estuary

Why I believe humans were in Australia much earlier than we thought

20 March 2019

Newly discovered shells and blackened stones are compelling evidence that humans lived in Australia 60,000 years earlier than we thought, says James Bowler


CRISPR is a powerful technique for editing DNA

‘Scientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-edited’

29 November 2018

He Jiankui has now presented his controversial work at a gene editing summit in Hong Kong. CRISPR expert Helen O’Neill of University College London was there


I paid £2000 to bank my son’s cord blood, but couldn’t use it

I paid £2000 to bank my son’s cord blood, but couldn’t use it

16 August 2017

An anonymous father says after storing the expensive cells, his son developed a condition that the blood could not treat


Natalie Coutts

Cancer runs in my family, but now we can pick it up in time

3 August 2017

When Natalie Coutts found out she was genetically predisposed to cancer, she was devastated. But regular screens for early tumours now let her feel in control


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