“ Public Attitudes to Science 2025 confirms that the public values science, but does not feel it benefits society equally, or on a personal level. Crucially, the study emphasises a clear course of ...

Over the last 25 years, the Public Attitudes to Science (PAS) studies have provided data on what people in the UK think about science and scientists, and how informed and engaged they feel when it ...

In a recent study published in PLoS Biology, researchers investigated whether individuals with extreme attitudes, negative or positive, show a greater likelihood of believing that they understand ...

Among Americans, trust in science increased slightly between 2024 and 2025, according to a new Pew Research poll.

Brazil’s researchers have a battle on their hands. The country has the world’s third-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with more than 300,000 infections and 20,000 deaths. Scientists there ...

Spike W. S. Lee receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science. Aviva Philipp-Muller and Richard Petty do not ...