Forty million adults in the US use the internet as their primary source of news and information about science, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

The survey found that, as a primary source for science news and information, the internet is second only to television among the general US population.

Yet for Americans with high-speed internet connections at home, the internet is as popular as TV for news and information about science.

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