Science

Policy

New Company Practices Virtual Eugenics

GenePeeks aids parents in their quest for healthier babies by reducing the odds of structural or genetic birth defects.

Ronald Bailey | 10.24.2014 1:30 PM

Biotechnology

Ronald Bailey Argues that Practicing Virtual Eugenics Is Just Great

Reason Staff | 10.24.2014 1:30 PM

Native Americans

Paradox: Christian Creationism Bad - Native American Creationism Good

Ronald Bailey | 10.21.2014 3:31 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: "I'm Skeptical," With Michael Shermer, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Andy Levy, Michael Malice, and More!

Matt Welch | 10.17.2014 6:11 PM

Policy

Nobel Prize Winner Talks About Getting Hassled by TSA

Zenon Evans | 10.14.2014 2:15 PM

Politics

Virginia Postrel: Why Neal Stephenson, Peter Thiel Are Wrong About the Future

Nick Gillespie | 10.13.2014 10:28 AM

Policy

How Cutting-Edge Medicine Might Have Spared Us the Ebola Epidemic

The promise of technical end-runs around government ineptitude

Ronald Bailey | 10.10.2014 1:30 PM

Energy efficiency

LED Lights Tempt Us to Use More, Not Less, Energy

Ronald Bailey | 10.10.2014 10:46 AM

Temperature Trends

Global Temperature Trend Update: September 2014

Ronald Bailey | 10.10.2014 9:31 AM

Life expectancy

U.S. Life Expectancy Increases by 6 Weeks - Needs to Go Up by 52 Weeks Per Year At Least

Ronald Bailey | 10.8.2014 2:41 PM

Brain

Proof of Life After Death? Maybe Not.

Ronald Bailey | 10.8.2014 1:32 PM

Temperature Trends

Global Warming Heat Not "Hiding" in the Deep Ocean After All

Ronald Bailey | 10.7.2014 12:03 PM

Science

Physics Nobel Prize to Inventors of Blue Diode Light Source

LED

Reason Staff | 10.7.2014 10:53 AM

Economics

Unlimited Free Solar Power?

The price of solar modules has already fallen by 80 percent.

Ronald Bailey | 10.3.2014 1:30 PM

Solar Power

Ronald Bailey Asks If We Are on the Verge of Unlimited Free Solar Power

Reason Staff | 10.3.2014 1:30 PM

Contraception

Study: Providing Teens With Free Long-Acting Contraception Dramatically Lowers Births and Abortions

Ronald Bailey | 10.3.2014 11:41 AM

Extinction

Populations of Vertebrate Species Down 52 Percent Since 1970, Says Living Planet Index Report

Ronald Bailey | 10.1.2014 3:02 PM

Science & Technology

More Evidence of Widespread Brain Disease Among Former NFL Players

Reason Staff | 10.1.2014 11:35 AM

Ebola

First Ebola Case in U.S. Confirmed. Don't Panic!

Ronald Bailey | 9.30.2014 5:43 PM

Politics

Flood Wall Street Climate Change Protest Is a Washout

Imposing equality is the goal; climate change is the excuse

Ronald Bailey | 9.23.2014 9:30 AM

Politics

A Parade of Progressive Causes at the People's Climate March

No Nukes, No Fracking, No GMOs, and Certainly No Capitalism

Ronald Bailey | 9.22.2014 9:30 AM

Policy

Is the Shale Revolution a 'Ponzi Scheme' or the End of Peak Oil?

"Ponzi scheme" or the end of Peak Oil?

Ronald Bailey | 9.19.2014 1:30 PM

Natural Gas

Ronald Bailey Asks is the Shale Revolution a 'Ponzi Scheme' or the End of Peak Oil?

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 1:30 PM

Saccharin

Nature Artificial Sweetener Study Bogus, Says American Council on Science and Health

Ronald Bailey | 9.18.2014 5:39 PM

Sugar

Are Artificial Sweeteners Responsible for the Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics?

Ronald Bailey | 9.18.2014 11:31 AM

Vaccines

Vaccination Rates Higher In War-Torn South Sudan Than in Many Affluent Los Angeles Schools

Ronald Bailey | 9.17.2014 1:23 PM

Biotechnology

National Academy of Sciences Invites Creationists to Testify on the Validity of Biological Evolution: Well, Actually a Bunch Anti-Biotech Activists

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2014 2:41 PM

Biotechnology

One Million Dollar Prize to Build New Livers: The Race Is Officially On

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2014 1:46 PM

Political Identification

You Smell Like Liberty: Will You Marry Me?

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2014 12:02 PM

Science Policy

Elizabeth Whelan, Fierce Fighter Against Junk Science, Is Dead.

Ronald Bailey | 9.12.2014 2:47 PM

Policy

Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?

In a thoughtful new book, a philosopher ponders the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence.

Ronald Bailey | 9.12.2014 1:30 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Ronald Bailey Wonders If Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy Humanity

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 1:30 PM

23andMe

Warning: If You Don't Want to Know the Results of a Genetic Test, Don't Take It

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2014 5:42 PM

Climate Sensitivity

Do Researchers Really Know Why Global Warming Is On Pause and When It Will End?

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2014 3:06 PM

Carbon Dioxide

Greenhouse Gases Rose At Record Rate Last Year, Says World Meteorological Organization

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2014 11:32 AM

Temperature Trends

Global Temperature Trend Update: August 2014

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2014 11:01 AM

Politics

How to Slake California's Thirst

Following Australia's lead on water rights and water markets would solve the state's water shortage.

Ronald Bailey | 9.5.2014 1:30 PM

California

Ronald Bailey on How to Slake California's Thirst

Reason Staff | 9.5.2014 1:30 PM

E-cigarettes

Study: E-Cigarettes Offer Far More Benefits Than Harms to Smokers and Bystanders

Ronald Bailey | 9.5.2014 12:03 PM

Ebola

Study: Ebola Coming to America?

Ronald Bailey | 9.5.2014 11:15 AM

Biotechnology

The New Yorker Rebuts Bioluddite Disinformationist Vandana Shiva

Ronald Bailey | 9.2.2014 4:06 PM

Science

"Libertarian ideology is the natural enemy of science," says The Guardian: Absolute Codswallop.

Ronald Bailey | 8.29.2014 3:02 PM

Politics

Climate Change Costs By 2100: Doing Nothing Has the Same Price Tag as Doing Something

Adapting to climate change would cost roughly the same as trying to slow it.

Ronald Bailey | 8.29.2014 1:30 PM

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Ronald Bailey Finds that Slowing Climate Change Costs About the Same As Adapting to It

Reason Staff | 8.29.2014 1:30 PM

Salt

FDA Restrictions on Salt Could Kill You

Ronald Bailey | 8.25.2014 2:41 PM

Policy

Environmentalism and the Fear of Disorder

Greens engage in rituals to allay their anxieties.

Ronald Bailey | 8.22.2014 1:30 PM

Environmentalism

Ronald Bailey on How Fear of Disorder Motivates Environmentalists

Reason Staff | 8.22.2014 1:30 PM

Vaccines

How to Prevent Your Kids from Getting Cancer

Ronald Bailey | 8.22.2014 12:33 PM