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Restricting High-Risk Individuals from Owning Guns Saves Lives, Report Finds
October 25, 2012 A new report examines policies and initiatives for reducing gun violence in the U.S. by reforming current gun policies. The report includes the following key findings: easy access to firearms with ... > full story -
Survival of U.S. Affordable Care Act Assessed in New Commentaries
October 24, 2012 As the presidential candidates clash over the fate of the U.S. Affordable Care Act, a set of seven essays by leading legal experts, economists, and scholars examines the implications of the Supreme ... > full story -
California Leads United States in Exonerations of Wrongfully Convicted
October 24, 2012 Two hundred or more wrongful convictions have been thrown out since 1989 in California, costing those convicted more than 1,300 years of freedom and taxpayers $129 ... > full story -
Voter ID Debate: Do Photo ID Requirements Promote Security or Suppress Participation?
October 23, 2012 Will new voting laws, including photo ID requirements, create barriers to voting? Will they impose an unequal burden on participation by some groups of American voters? Are they justified by the need ... > full story -
Scientists Seek National Wildlife Conservation Network
October 22, 2012 Wildlife conservation efforts in the United States are facing habitat loss, climate change and major reductions in funding. To address these threats, a group of prominent wildlife biologists and ... > full story -
Collective Violence and Poverty on the Mexican-US Border Affects Child Mental Health
October 19, 2012 Collective violence attributed to organized crime and poverty are adversely affecting the mental health of children living near the Texas-Mexico border, according to new ... > full story -
Criminal Punishment and Politics: Elected Judges Take Tougher Stance Prior to Elections
October 18, 2012 The last few months leading up to an election can be a critical, political game changer. One right or one wrong move can quickly change a candidate's standing at the polls. New research suggests that ... > full story -
Evidence Does Not Support Three-Strikes Law as Crime Deterrent, California Study Finds
October 15, 2012 Contrary to what police, politicians and the public believe, research by a University of California, Riverside criminologist has found that the state's three-strikes law has done nothing to reduce ... > full story -
Research Team Develops Single-Crystal Pump for Miniaturized DNA Forensics
October 15, 2012 A research team has developed a new type of micro pump that can be used in forensic DNA profiling. The pump represents a giant leap in ... > full story -
Tying Our Fate to Molecular Markings
October 12, 2012 A physicist has helped discover that understanding how a chemical mark on our DNA affects gene expression could be as useful to scientists as fingerprints are to police at a crime scene. In a new ... > full story
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