The World Health Organization has published new data highlighting the leading causes of death worldwide in 2019. Collectively, the top 10 causes of death accounted for 55% of the 55.4 million deaths ...

Last year, at least 560,000 people were killed violently across the world, corresponding to 7.5 violent deaths per 100,000 of the global population. That is slightly slower than in 2015 (7.73) and ...

“How Many Really?”, Berg’s latest interactive project for the BBC, uses the currency of our always-on, digitally connected age–social networks and “friend” lists–as raw material to visualize the ...

The American death penalty is falling out of favor, with sentences and executions hitting record lows, as the public expresses more opposition to it than at any point since the Civil Rights Movement.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I recently came across an ambitious infographic created by the California Innocence ...

Apoptosis is triggered many different ways, but they all ultimately activate enzymes known as caspases that disrupt a cell’s DNA, organelles, and cytoskeleton. Caspases also recruit other cells to eat ...