Over 35 million pilgrims are expected to visit Rome in 2025 seeking forgiveness of sins and a chance to see the pope.

Growing shares of Americans view both gun violence and violent crime as very big national problems. 49% of U.S. adults say gun ownership increases safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect ...

A majority of Americans say freedom of the press is important to the well-being of society; college graduates are most likely ...

Long-term analysis of 198 countries and territories shows government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward ...

At the interface between Asia and Europe, the Caucasus region was a melting pot during the Bronze Age and the origin of the earliest steppe pastoralist societies. Ancient-DNA analyses reveal how ...

Republicans will kick off the 119th Congress with the smallest margin of control in the U.S. House of Representatives in ...

Travellers and Roma face the highest levels of prejudice of any ethnic group in Ireland, according to new research. The study ...

The development of a first-in-class non-covalent small-molecule inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 replication that targets the viral guanine-N7 methyltransferase NSP14 is reported. This study explores how ...

U.S. adults are just as likely to say that policies aimed at reducing the effects of climate change usually help the economy as they are to say these policies usually hurt it (34% each). Among ...

A Pew Research Center study revealed that about 35 percent of US parents said it was extremely or very important that their kids grow up to share their religious views. The study also showed ...

Overall, 88% of voters say that elections across the United States were run and administered at least somewhat well. More than nine-in-ten Trump voters (93%) say this about the 2024 elections, up from ...