murders

An increasing trend of defendants using neuroscience to argue for lesser sentences

A study of British "family annihilators" reveals some macabre data.

Tools of the 21st-century police department

The leading causes of violence-related deaths, for everyone in the United States.

Policy that would make it easier to carry concealed weapons into schools could have meant “the difference between life and death for many innocent bystanders,” a spokesman for Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger said after last week's shooting at Sandy Hook. Does research bear that out?

Studies of "rampage violence" have only been around for about a decade, but researchers are still working hard to understand and prevent it. Here's the current state of the field.

The number-one scourge of the bird population is cats. But other cats, right, not yours? The Oatmeal investigates

Might the death of Juliana Mensch have been predicted, and perhaps prevented? The people accused of strangling the 19-year-old in...

Cops searching for hidden graves usually rely on dogs or ground-penetrating radar. Now they have another tool in their arsenal...

Add gumshoe detective to NASA’s resume. Last year, scientists from the space agency working with the US Geological Survey and...