Science

Science & Technology

Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets?

And other questions from the Singularity Summit

Ronald Bailey | 9.11.2007 1:59 PM

Politics

The Manipulation of Human Behavior: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Brian Doherty | 9.6.2007 3:53 PM

Science & Technology

Magic Meets Science

Jesse Walker | 8.22.2007 12:26 PM

Science & Technology

Your God Eats Cheetos

Radley Balko | 8.14.2007 10:51 AM

Science & Technology

Peace and Prosperity Through Productivity

Can economic growth solve all the problems in the world?

Ronald Bailey | 8.1.2007 3:39 PM

Science & Technology

"It's Hard To Make Predictions, Especially About the Future"

Lust, Longevity, and FDA reform at the World Future Society Conference

Ronald Bailey | 7.31.2007 3:54 PM

Science & Technology

Would you give up your immortality to ensure the success of a posthuman world?

Answering hard questions at the World Transhumanist conference

Ronald Bailey | 7.27.2007 3:35 PM

Science & Technology

Freezing or Uploading?

Which road to immortality would you choose?

Ronald Bailey | 7.26.2007 10:45 AM

Science & Technology

More on Space Tourism: Inflatable Hotel Launched

Brian Doherty | 7.2.2007 1:50 PM

Science & Technology

Kentucky Fried Creationism

Nick Gillespie | 5.29.2007 7:21 AM

Science & Technology

Do Androids Dream They Hear Electric Men and Monkeys in the Jungle Scream?

Jesse Walker | 5.8.2007 12:02 PM

Culture

Superhuman Imagination

Vernor Vinge on science fiction, the Singularity, and the state

Mike Godwin | 5.4.2007 12:01 PM

Science & Technology

Stephen Hawking To Escape Gravity

Nick Gillespie | 4.26.2007 9:35 AM

Policy

The Psychedelic Research Frontier

Brian Doherty | 3.29.2007 9:10 PM

Culture

The Lost World

Jesse Walker | 3.14.2007 11:28 AM

Science & Technology

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

The FDA versus dying cancer patients.

Ronald Bailey | 3.2.2007 5:08 AM

Culture

Review Board Avoidance Syndrome

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2007 12:16 PM

Policy

Benign Cells?

Cancer and Mobile Phones

Ronald Bailey | 3.1.2007 10:45 AM

Culture

No Small Matter

Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry?

Kenneth Silber | 2.24.2007 1:39 AM

Science & Technology

Reading Minds

Is commercial lie detection set to go?

Ronald Bailey | 2.23.2007 5:49 AM

Science & Technology

Did They Check for Monoliths?

Jesse Walker | 2.15.2007 11:49 PM

Science & Technology

Weighing the Internet

Brian Doherty | 1.22.2007 9:58 AM

Science & Technology

The Attack on Rabbit-Human (and Other) Chimeras Goes International

Ronald Bailey | 1.5.2007 10:47 AM

Culture

Science Reporting: The Worst of 2006

Jesse Walker | 1.2.2007 11:35 AM

Culture

Japanese Invasion of France Repelled…

Brian Doherty | 12.21.2006 2:02 PM

Culture

The Jesus Lizard

Jesse Walker | 12.21.2006 11:20 AM

Science & Technology

Beat Me, Whip Me, Make Me Honest!

How punishment and reputation combine to create cooperation

Ronald Bailey | 12.8.2006 5:27 AM

Science & Technology

Mars: Could It Be the Kind of Place to Raise Your Kids?

Brian Doherty | 12.6.2006 12:17 PM

Science & Technology

Don't Do Drugs, European Kids—They'll Eat Out Your Wallet

Brian Doherty | 12.5.2006 12:22 PM

Science & Technology

Closing the Black/White IQ Gap?

James Flynn and Charles Murray search for a solution.

Ronald Bailey | 12.1.2006 5:00 AM

Policy

Ancient Flood Myths Confirmed?; Eggheads Crack Up Over Evidence of Frighteningly Recent "Megatsunamis"—Must We Watch the Sky for Our Doom?

Brian Doherty | 11.15.2006 10:41 AM

Politics

Americans Vote Pro-Life

Did stem cells give the Senate to the Democrats?

Ronald Bailey | 11.10.2006 4:30 AM

Policy

Fuel vs. Food or Fuel vs. Forests: Both Eco-Alarmists and Eco-Skeptics Are Worried About Ethanol From Corn

Ronald Bailey | 11.7.2006 3:48 PM

Science & Technology

Scientific Nuremberg Trials?

Who needs data, experiments and peer reviewed journals when we can settle scientific matters via trial by ordeal?

Ronald Bailey | 10.23.2006 10:02 AM

Culture

Endangered Evolutionists

A new film ponders the popularity of "intelligent design."

Kenneth Silber | 8.20.2006 1:00 PM

Science & Technology

Buying Science

Following the money in the lab

Ronald Bailey | 7.28.2006 4:03 PM

Policy

Imagine No Gasoline

A bold energy solution for President Bush

Jonathan Rauch | 7.10.2006 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Brownback's Chimerical Attempt to Curb Science

Outlawing human/animal chimeras will hurt serious research

Ronald Bailey | 6.30.2006 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

A Natural Sense of Justice

Three simple games determine when and why humans cooperate.

Ronald Bailey | 6.23.2006 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Is Modern Civilization Fragile?

The radically enhanced security of the modern world

Ronald Bailey | 6.9.2006 11:16 AM

Civil Liberties

Collecting DNA

Database mission creep

Brian Doherty | 6.5.2006 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Criminal Kinship

Slouching toward a DNA database nation.

Ronald Bailey | 5.19.2006 11:10 AM

Policy

Of Penises and Pesticides

Are synthetic chemicals responsible for male shortcomings?

Ronald Bailey | 5.5.2006 11:06 AM

Culture

Separate But Equal?

Can science tell us anything about religion?

Ronald Bailey | 5.5.2006 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Anyone for tennis, at the age of 150?

Scientific progress promises us far longer, happier lives. Yet the 'bioconservatives' want to stop it

Ronald Bailey | 4.11.2006 10:55 AM

Science & Technology

The Research Imperative

Curse or cure?

Ronald Bailey | 4.7.2006 10:53 AM

Politics

Silencing Scientists

A really stupid idea

Ronald Bailey | 3.24.2006 10:47 AM

Politics

Curb Your Enthusiasms

Moralists left and right want to control your carnal desires.

Radley Balko | 3.1.2006 12:00 AM