Children born in Finland into a family where one parent or both parents are of immigrant background are more likely to perform worse at school and suffer mental health problems, according to an ...

Roughly 5.8% of students reported carrying a gun during the previous year. As the Supreme Court hears its first firearms case since 2010 this week, new research indicates there's one area in which ...

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 ...

A new study shows that children born preterm who are later diagnosed with autism often present with more extensive support ...

New research shows that background checks for employment, housing and more can be highly problematic. Employers making hiring decisions, landlords considering possible tenants and schools approving ...

Employers may not be able to trust background checks completely, particularly because they may contain false information, according to a new study published in the research journal Criminology.

A groundbreaking investigation into the genomes of approximately 3,200 individuals across Japan is reshaping our understanding of the country's ancestry. This study reveals that the genetic background ...

Here's one topic Americans can bank on hearing about in next week's State of the Union address: gun control. The reaction to President Obama's announced gun-control measures this week was swift and ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

In 1932 the United States Public Health Service began a study designed as an observation of the natural history of latent syphilis. The “Tuskegee study,” as it is commonly known, lasted 40 years, ...