Science

Science & Technology

Curiosity Fires Laser on Mars

No sign of anything shooting back.

Reason Staff | 8.20.2012 10:20 AM

Policy

Shoring Up the Mantra of Science: Take Nobody's Word for It

Ronald Bailey | 8.17.2012 12:34 PM

Science & Technology

Hope for Men: Male Contraceptive Pill on Horizon

Years of trials and tests still needed.

Reason Staff | 8.17.2012 8:44 AM

Politics

No Teen Oral Sex "Epidemic" Says New CDC Study

Ronald Bailey | 8.16.2012 9:51 AM

Culture

Belief in Hell Makes People Act Better: Heaven Not So Much

Ronald Bailey | 8.10.2012 3:08 PM

Science & Technology

Pacifists Quietly Seize the Moon

Stars and stripes forever? Not quite.

Jesse Walker | 8.6.2012 9:36 AM

Policy

Resetting Your Biological Clock

Egg freezing opens up new frontiers in gender equality.

Ronald Bailey | 7.30.2012 10:30 AM

Policy

For the Obama Administration, Conceding Marijuana's Medical Potential Does Not Mean Rethinking the Federal Ban

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2012 12:41 PM

Politics

No Recipe for Resilience

A new guide to resilience has no theory to offer.

Ed Regis | 7.14.2012 1:00 PM

Policy

Gabriel G. Nahas, Who Warned Us to Keep Off the Grass, RIP

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2012 3:07 AM

Policy

Is an Unknown Drug or an Unverifiable Mental Disorder a Better Explanation for Face Eating Than a Voodoo Curse?

Jacob Sullum | 7.5.2012 3:14 AM

Policy

The DEA's Classification of Pot: Destroyed but Still Standing

Jacob Sullum | 7.3.2012 3:44 PM

Economics

The Cure for Abject Poverty

A new book argues that inclusive institutions offer the best path to prosperity.

Ronald Bailey | 7.2.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Neil Armstrong Clarification: First Moonwalker Wants to "Encourage Newcomers."

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.21.2012 8:17 PM

Policy

CDC-Sponsored Study Finds No Neurological Damage From Light to Moderate Drinking During Pregnancy

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2012 3:11 AM

Politics

Rio +20 Earth Summit: Wandering Through the People's Summit

Reason's Science Correspondent sends his fourth dispatch from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.

Ronald Bailey | 6.20.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

UCLA Professor Sues for Firing over Diesel Pollution Study Whistleblowing

Scott Shackford | 6.14.2012 1:23 PM

Politics

HIV Revisionism in Fort Bragg Acquittal

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.12.2012 11:09 AM

Policy

Reason Writers Around Town: Ronald Bailey Reviews Jim Manzi's Uncontrolled

Reason Staff | 6.7.2012 10:37 AM

Policy

The Devil in Rudy Eugene

The "Miami Cannibal" story reflects our perennial readiness to believe that drugs make people do evil.

Jacob Sullum | 6.6.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan: SpaceX Destroying America from Within

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.4.2012 9:34 PM

Politics

Do You Really Want to Live Forever?

The new book Immortality warns against the quest for eternal life

Ronald Bailey | 5.29.2012 5:30 PM

Culture

Turing Turns 100

The father of computer science, honored too late.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.28.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

How Psychiatrists Make Drugs More Addictive

Jacob Sullum | 5.14.2012 4:21 PM

Science & Technology

Editors of Psychiatric Bible Exhibit Pseudoscientific Delusional Syndrome

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2012 1:49 PM

Policy

Tiny Painkiller Junkies?

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2012 2:29 PM

Policy

The Cure for the Common Hangover

A Las Vegas doctor treats the sick and needy

Greg Beato | 4.26.2012 4:30 PM

Policy

Can Censorship Stop Bioterrorism?

Open science is the best defense against a deadly avian flu attack.

Ronald Bailey | 4.26.2012 1:00 PM

Politics

Blogging About the Paleo Diet Can Get You Shut Down in North Carolina

Brian Doherty | 4.23.2012 7:55 PM

Science & Technology

More Cash, Less HIV?

African experiments

Julie Ershadi | 4.23.2012 6:45 AM

Culture

The Medicalization of Rebellion

The long, shameful history of using science to stigmatize dissent

Sheldon Richman | 4.21.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Matt Ridley on Ideas having Sex, Free Trade, & Apocalyptic Science w/ Reason's Kennedy

Joshua Swain | 4.17.2012 11:20 AM

Politics

Matt Ridley on Ideas having Sex, Free Trade, & Apocalyptic Science w/ Reason's Kennedy

Joshua Swain | 4.17.2012 11:15 AM

Politics

Born This Way?

Nature, nurture, narratives, and the making of our political personalities

Jonathan Haidt | 4.10.2012 7:00 AM

Economics

"Ideas Having Sex" A Conversation with John Tierney and Matt Ridley

Anthony Fisher | 4.6.2012 9:35 AM

Politics

Can Most Cancer Research Be Trusted?

Addressing the problem of "academic risk" in biomedical research

Ronald Bailey | 4.3.2012 5:00 PM

Science & Technology

Why Don't Conservatives Trust Scientists Like They Used To? Are They Just Anti-Evolutionary, Anti-Global Warming Jag-Offs or Could There Be Other Explanations?

Nick Gillespie | 3.30.2012 9:50 AM

Politics

Conservatives Against Consumption

Are fossil fuels responsible for moral and social decay?

Ronald Bailey | 3.29.2012 2:00 PM

Policy

It Might Be Premature to Blame 'Meth Babies' for Imposing 'Tremendous Burdens on Society'

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 5:52 PM

Politics

Among the Nonbelievers: Part II

Atheist activists in Orlando talk John Locke, religious toleration, presidential politics, and Don't Ask, But Do Tell.

Ronald Bailey | 3.8.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Among the Nonbelievers

Atheist activists in Orlando talk separation of church and state, sick kids, and Evil God.

Ronald Bailey | 3.7.2012 4:30 PM