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A larger share of young women live at home with their parents or other relatives than at any point since 1940, as more attend college and marry later in life.

Republican voters give the current field of presidential candidates higher ratings than at comparable times in the past two nomination contests.

Six-in-ten app downloaders have chosen not to install an app when they discovered how much personal information the app required in order to use it.

Analysis of over 1 million apps in Google’s Android operating system in 2014 shows apps can seek 235 different kinds of permissions from smartphone users. The average app asks for five permissions.

72% of Americans believe in heaven, while 58% believe in hell.

There are 1,041,336 apps in this dataset. In all, 165 permissions allow access to device hardware and 70 allow access to various types of user information. Below on the left is a selection of 18 popular apps from the Google Play Store. Clicking an app icon will show the list of permissions required by each […]

U.S. homes are more energy-efficient per square foot than they used to be. But they're also bigger, and their increased size offsets most of the efficiency gains.

Australia, Canada, Germany and the UK are among the other countries where there are partisan clashes on climate change issues.

Racial identity is far from a straightforward concept, and when multiple strands of identity come together this has the potential to increase the complexity.