Computer chips in human brains: How Americans view the technology amid recent advances
More than half of U.S. adults (56%) said that widespread use of brain chips to enhance cognitive function would be a bad idea for society.
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Jenn Hatfield
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Jenn Hatfield is a writer/editor at Pew Research Center.
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5 facts about Black Americans and health care
More Black Americans say health outcomes for Black people in the United States have improved over the past 20 years than say outcomes have worsened.
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Most countries don’t observe daylight saving time
Only about a third of the world’s countries practice daylight saving time, and the vast majority of them are in Europe.
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Most Americans don’t closely follow professional or college sports
About six-in-ten Americans (62%) say they follow professional or college sports not too or not at all closely.
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How public attitudes toward Martin Luther King Jr. have changed since the 1960s
About eight-in-ten American adults (81%) say civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has had a positive impact on the United States.
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8 facts about Black Lives Matter
As we mark 10 years since the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag first appeared on social media, here are eight facts about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Relatively few Asian Americans say they’re well-informed about Asian history in the U.S.
About one-in-four Asian Americans (24%) consider themselves extremely or very informed about the history of Asian people in the United States.
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Partisan divides over K-12 education in 8 charts
The public is sharply divided along partisan lines on topics ranging from what should be taught in schools to how much influence parents should have over the curriculum.
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Q&A: A behind-the-scenes look at Pew Research Center’s extensive new survey of Asian Americans
This project is the largest nationally representative survey of its kind to date focused on Asian Americans.
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Young adults in the U.S. are less likely than those in most of Europe to live in their parents’ home
One-in-three U.S. adults ages 18 to 34 live in their parents’ home, according to U.S. Census Bureau data from 2021.
