Bioengineering Photosynthesis Boosts Crop Growth by 40 Percent
Malthusian predictions of global famines keep receding.
Malthusian predictions of global famines keep receding.
Food security is not the problem, but nutrition security could be.
Social media platforms have every right to do whatever the hell they want, but they shouldn't really do much speech policing at all.
Michael Shermer, Ron Bailey, and Jim Epstein talk poverty-eradication, genomics, and blockchain at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration
A Barberton judge just sentenced a woman to jail, house arrest, and a year without social media for repeating a rumor about a pellet gun at school.
J.D. Tuccille, Lisa Snell, and Rob Long discuss the democratization of everything at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
Companies should be applauded, not criticized, for working to identify the genetic roots of diseases that afflict humanity.
Reason editors' best and worst moments of 2018, including the president's welcome and long-overdue drawdown from Afghanistan
New film The Creepy Line argues that tech giants sometimes silence conservatives and try to steer America left.
The tech giant actually stands to gain by legally hamstringing competition with tough regulations.
One year after Net Neutrality, connection speed is up, the discrimination critics feared is non-existent, and the debate about Internet regulation is abysmal.
The Cypherpunk co-founder was a major influence on both bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Equal Justice Society, and others are challenging the practice in court.
Economists Kenneth Rogoff and Lawrence H. White face off over what the impact would be of a ban on cryptocurrency and phaseout of the $100 bill.
Yesterday's hearings didn't clarify much except that Washington is in a mood to regulate tech giants.
Australians who want to protect their data from surveillance now need to turn to extra-legal means.
Also: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owns the cons while spouting policy B.S.
Plus: Trump changes his mind about military spending and why Rand Paul hates Trump's new attorney general pick.
Parliament passes a bill at the last possible moment to give officials the power to weaken encryption.
New rules ban erotic art, talk of shared sexual interests, kink groups, and anything that "encourages sexual encounters between adults."
It's been dubbed "NYC's Anti-Airdrop Dick Pic Law," but the bill is much broader than that.
The future we've fantasized about really is coming, and soon.
Research shows a fifth of its users seek out sexual images. But the sharing site is now part of a massive media conglomerate.
Plus: the First Amendment problems with prosecuting Wikileaks and the trans troops ban is dealt another blow.
Sophisticated firearms are becoming ever-easier to illicitly manufacture in basic workshops, says a new report. We'll even show you how to do it!
A brief look at 50-year cost and quality trends in cars, houses, college and health care.
Killing Section 230 would only lead web platforms to ban even more speech.
"I had to add a content warning or else."
As Facebook's supposed ideological allies unfriend the social media giant, the tech industry is learning that there are no permanent allegiances in politics.
The next Reason/Soho Forum debate takes place in New York on December 3 and features Harvard's Ken Rogoff and GMU's Larry White.
The host of TruTV's hit show has lost some faith in the power of rational discourse. And he has some ideas for how to fix the problem.
The snitch crusade is ostensibly about making sure hot women aren't making money off their hotness without giving the government a cut.
If Skynet looms on the horizon, you won't find the evidence here.
A regulatory pact between FDA and USDA may help speed up getting lab-grown meats to your local supermarket.
We should all be thankful for innovators and visionaries who aren't afraid to dream big.
That seems like a bit of an overreaction.
Censoring politicians' racist, sexist, and abhorrent behavior on social media does a big favor to racist, sexist, and abhorrent politicians.
What should the culture of free speech, free expression, and ownership look like on our social media platforms?
The good news is that anti-technology activists are unlikely to succeed in imposing a global moratorium.
Plus: Trump endorses sentencing reform and Bitcoin's value continues to fall.
Baffled by and fearful of each other, the political tribes remain consumed by loathing and dedicated to total victory.
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