New Mosquitos Can Help Beat Malaria
Malaria is making a comeback in the United States. Mosquitos might be part of the solution.
Malaria is making a comeback in the United States. Mosquitos might be part of the solution.
It's virtually certain that 2023 will be the warmest year ever in the instrumental temperature record.
The notion that COVID-19 came from a lab was once touted as misinformation. But now the FBI, the Energy Department, and others agree with Paul.
Social media overuse among teens may be a symptom, not the cause, of their distress.
The epidemiology of food and drink is a mess.
A sketchy conjectural hypothesis was transmogrified into a dubious dietary dogma.
The epidemiology of food and drink is a mess.
Despite years of Google primacy over Microsoft Bing, usage of Bing has more than doubled over the past three years and continues to grow.
The doomsday consensus around climate change is "manufactured," says scientist Judith Curry.
The country's favorite blue-collar champion calls attention to the 'skills gap' and asks why young men spend so much time online.
Asked about people in general, respondents perceive moral decline. But when asked about specific acts or people in their personal worlds, the data tell a different story.
No, it's not ethical to keep them from potentially lifesaving information about their babies—and themselves.
The Mars Sample Retrieval program is now estimated to cost double than what was originally projected.
The ruling is likely the first by a state supreme court to undercut the popular forensic technique.
Confirmation of Wuhan scientists as "patients zero" makes the lab leak theory look likely—and the misinformation police look like fools.
The Supreme Court is agnostic on questions of science, but clear and resolute on questions of law.
The few good studies on teen depression and social media undercut attempts to establish causal connections between the two.
Most cancer diagnoses and deaths are due to cancers for which there are no recommended screening tests.
Education officials unveiled new rules on Tuesday which will mandate that city elementary schools use one of three "research-backed" reading curricula.
Recent comments by former COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci contradict what public health officials told us during the pandemic.
A new satellite global temperature data series bolsters the case that climate models are running way too hot.
Even the best studies haven't surmounted a key statistical issue, and they tend to distort the evidence to make e-cigarettes look dangerous.
The book's 12 thematic chapters are dense and rich—like flan, but good.
Eliminating taxation on compensation for being a human guinea pig is just good public policy.
Jonathan Haidt's integrity and transparency are admirable, but the studies he's relying on aren't strong enough to support his conclusions.
Nature's 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden changed no minds but did significantly undermine trust in science.
"The future of our planet depends on how we feed ourselves…and we have a responsibility to look beyond the horizon for smarter, sustainable ways to eat," says GOOD Meat's CEO.
Greetings from the second International Conspiracy Theory Symposium, where one of the most cited findings in the field has been debunked.
Thanks to tendentiously sloppy research, most Americans think vaping is just as dangerous as smoking. That’s not true.
Nita A. Farahany's The Battle for Your Brain shows how neurotech can help, or hurt, human liberty.
Amit Katwala’s Tremors in the Blood explores how unreliable technologies have been used in our criminal justice system.
Beware of activists touting "responsible research and innovation." The sensible-sounding slogan masks a reactionary agenda.
Plus: Liberal teens are more depressed than conservative ones, the outsize role of immigrants in U.S. innovation, and more...
Plus: The editors reveal their favorite issues and articles from the Reason magazine catalog.
Americans are increasingly buying electric cars. Electrochemists and their innovations will drive down the cost of powering them.
We couldn't find any negative review of physicist Steven Koonin's Unsettled that disputed its claims directly or even described them accurately.
The Cochrane Library's review of masking trials should sound the death knell for mask mandates everywhere.
If you look closely, you'll find a lot of contradictions.
Pessimism is everywhere, but the author of The Cloud Revolution says we're entering a golden age of abundant, ubiquitous, and liberating technology.
The obvious problems with the article reflect a broader pattern that suggests a peer review bias against e-cigarettes.
A review of the new book Tickets For The Ark, by Rebecca Nesbit
The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences.
Making it easier for scientists to study marijuana is a far cry from the liberalization that most Americans want.
"You have this looming power over you that essentially can end your career," says Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya.
Find out why people have donated a half-million dollars so far, and then please consider joining them before time runs out!
Regulators are beginning to smile on the sci-fi project of creating real meat products without the typical death and environmental destruction.
The bigger problem now is that outmoded regulations stand in the way of deployment.