Easy New Gene Editing Technique CRISPR Conjures Fears of a Brave New World
Is it immoral to slow progress toward curing diseases and creating more environmentally benign products?
Is it immoral to slow progress toward curing diseases and creating more environmentally benign products?
The "Tim Hunt, misogynist scientist" narrative has been falling apart piece by piece over the past month.
Annual competition rewards writers and filmmakers for libertarian-themed work.
"If we are going to continue to preserve our right to free speech in the electronic age, then we need to use tools like encryption."
Advances in technology will address climate change before calamity strikes.
James Hansen and his colleagues promote, uh, publish an alarming new study
Activists pretended to be with a medical research firm called Biomax.
As Blade Runner foretold, replicants may walk among us but we don't yet have the tech to detect them.
Ronald Bailey Talks The End of Doom at Cato July 23, 2015
Filmed at a Uniqlo in China, authorities also looking into the store's involvement
The corruption on display is bigger than Frank, Cesere, Velcoro, or any single individual and is thus uncontainable.
The burrito chain stokes bogus GMO fears and tries to profit from anti-biotech propaganda.
The latest in the Uber wars is more inanity.
How technology reduces waste by getting excess edibles to those who can still use them.
If voter ID laws were created to suppress minority voting, they're actually not doing that.
Using sunlight instead of electric lights could cut the price of pot in half.
Man who opened fire in crowded theater fails with insanity-plea defense.
So argues Eugene Volokh, albeit with a bit more subtlety.
Terrific Slate article agrees with what Reason has been reporting for years now.
Preempts costly state mandatory labeling laws
Is government-resistant encryption an intolerable threat to public safety?
Counteracting government thieving
We're about to get much, much closer.
The Hacking Team sold many governments-including ours-products to directly target journalists, software developers, and activists for surveillance.
Why is the Democratic presidential candidate targeting the "gig economy" characterized by Uber?
Researchers project a grand sunspot minimum by 2030
Restoring the herds and landscape seen by Lewis and Clark
Another chapter in the saga of this 2.4-mile rail boondoggle in the nation's capital.
FDA says silicone cup inserted in the vagina to block sperm cannot be sold over-the-counter.
The social media outrage wheel keeps spinning
Oregon's example shows the benefits of a surrogacy market governed by voluntary contracts rather than strict state regulation.
Measles outbreak kills woman in Washington State.
Governments Should All "Go Dark" When It Comes to Spying on Their Citizens
If there ever were any Greeks to speak of transferring their savings into bitcoins, chances are most have stopped.
Dunking booths are just too passe when it comes to fundraising for a new police cruiser.
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.11 C per decade
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit weighs in with a provocative prevarication.
RU Sirius and Jay Cornell have literally written the book on what's coming next in self-directed evolution.
The worm was designed to gather intelligence on the ongoing Iranian nuclear talks.
Civil liberties erosions aside, it won't work-but that won't keep him from proselytizing for weakened security.
Bitcoin is now the only means of paying for adult ads on the popular web classifieds site Backpage.com.
Two new tax rules are intended to help close the city's massive budget gap.
Carl Mark Force had also inked a $240,000 movie deal about tracking down "Dread Pirate Roberts."
Facing $100 million lawsuit from Hulk Hogan over posting excerpts of and writing about a sex tape featuring the pro-wrestler.