Pew Research Center

New research offers a step toward understanding how Facebook users find science news in this age of quick content circulation.

• By Candace Butera

Sixty-one percent of Americans expressed confidence in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ability to conduct a fair investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

• By Chinelo Nkechi Ikem

Republican representatives make up more than half of those choosing to not seek re-election.

• By Candace Butera

As the government continues to restructure under the Trump administration, the American people continue to hold favorable opinions of federal agencies and departments like the CIA, Federal Reserve, FBI, and EPA.

• By Candace Butera

Local lending institutions remain trusted sources of information while trust in the media has hit an all-time low.

• By Katie Kilkenny

New data from multiracial Americans suggests that race is more fluid than ever in the U.S.

• By Jared Keller

According to the latest Pew data, the number of adults who do not identify with a religious group grew from 36 million in 2007 to 56 million today. But past research indicates that many of these non-affiliated individuals have some form of belief system.

• By Casey N. Cep

Consuming bad news is evolutionarily adaptive, but the nature of the social Web might limit its supply.

• By Paul Hiebert

The idea of the urban liberal and the rural conservative is not a new one, but it's shocking just how accurate that stereotype appears to be.

• By Lisa Wade

How you answer that question probably has a lot more to do with your ideology than your income.

• By Lisa Wade

Younger Jews are more likely to describe themselves as being “atheist,” “agnostic,” or “nothing in particular," according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

• By Lisa Wade

The public is in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, but not by a margin of five to one, which is how a new Pew study weighs coverage during Supreme Court hearings for two landmark cases.

• By Michael Fitzgerald

New research finds a disconnect between young Americans’ self-proclaimed political ideology and their opinions on actual issues.

• By Tom Jacobs

Prism and the NSA’s phone tapping programs were supposed to be emergency measures designed to combat terrorism. But what happens when the threat of terrorism is the norm?

• By Jared Keller

A majority of Americans continue to overestimate crime rates, even as crime levels drop across the country.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Why do teenagers behave the way that they do online, sharing personal information with just about anybody who wants it? Look to the privacy paradox.

• By Jared Keller