Why Do People Believe Scientifically Untrue Things?
Because to do otherwise would be immoral.
Because to do otherwise would be immoral.
What are the limits to patents on self-replicating technologies?
Proposition 37 props up profits for organic growers and denies the scientific consensus in favor of biotech crops.
The bioethics of in vitro fertilization and birth defects
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey argues for using biotech, nanotech, and infotech to enhance human physical, intellectual, and emotional capabilities
Forcing humanity to remain relatively stupid and sick doesn't make us freer
A review of Mark Lynas' The God Species
A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.
More FDA regulations don't always mean greater food safety.
Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Weiner surveys the state of immortality research.
A final dispatch from the Open Science Summit.
Ronald Bailey's first dispatch from the conference that aims to launch Enlightenment 2.0
Don't let fears about frankenmicrobes halt promising research.
Is living longer in an overcrowded world better than the alternative?
Geo-engineering is most cost-effective; carbon taxes the least.