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Handguns that were swapped for gift cards during a Los Angeles Police Department sponsored gun buyback event in Los Angeles, California on December 13, 2014. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Interview: Treating gun violence as a public health crisis

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Book review: Steven Pinker on the power of the rational mind

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Donald Milton on aerosol transmission of COVID

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Stephen Hawking (Getty/Bruno Vincent)

“Hawking Hawking”: A humanizing portrait of Stephen Hawking

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Microbe structures on ALH84001 meteorite (Nasa)

Why do so many astronomy discoveries fail to live up to the hype?

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Inside Silicon Valley’s quest to prolong life

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How mathematics can save your life

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You would’ve hated your heroes: Why history’s great people seem so morally deficient

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