Adam Estes
How to Figure Out If Somebody's Spying on You
There are a lot of upsides to living in our always on, ever connected world.
Wade Cautiously Through This Awesome Shark Tracking Map
Ever wonder what those reality TV scientists do when they're not being followed around by cameras and microphones? Real research, it turns out.
The Navy Wants to Make Jet Fuel Out of Seawater
The U.S. Navy wasn't kidding when they said they wanted to transition their fleet on to a more sustainable fuel model. The announcement came earlier this summer when top brass finally came to the realization that it didn't make great sense to continue...
Rent-to-Own Laptops Recorded Keystrokes, Filmed Sex Acts
Renting things is always a bit of a gamble. What if you rent a car and the previous renter left an ounce of weed in the glovebox? That's not going to go over too well when you're reaching for the registration at a routine traffic stop. And how about a...
Google Street View Now Goes Underwater
It's happened to everyone. You're walking around a coastal town using Google Maps to navigate your way from one sandy street to another. (Clearly, you're not an iPhone 5 user.) Then, maybe you head down to the beach to check out the sand castles and...
Everybody Run: We've Created a Self-Aware Robot (But Also It's Kind of Cute)
It's often easy to find advances in robot technology a little bit unsettling, if not downright scary. Practically as long as man has been making machines, we've been worried that they'll evolve and one day take over everything. Of course, for this to...
Why Counterfeiters Love Election Years
Everybody loves an election year. The campaign volunteers are out and about, wearing matching T-shirts, holding clipboards and sticking lawn signs into the dirt. The TV is buzzing with the latest scooplet about this candidate's silly gaffe or that...
Scientists Show That You Can Erase Fear by Erasing Memories
Good news, gumshoes. Science has figured out how to erase fears. That sentence is not as sensational as it looks. A team of researchers from Uppsal University in Sweden have developed a technique whereby they can do away with new emotional memories in...
Science Confirms: The iPhone Is the New Pacifier
We've all seen it happen. You're standing in line at the grocery store, perusing the latest Us Weekly and thinking about buying a pack of gum, when here comes the 21st-century mom, basket full of kale and kombucha, pushing a stroller with a little one...
Is This Lab-Grown Leather Vegan?
As you probably learned in college when you started wearing Doc Martin boots and smoking Marlboro Reds, leather jackets are expensive. That's because leather is expensive, and as cows continue to belch greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and require...
A Machine For Turning Your Junk into Dubstep Music
When you think about it, pretty much all modern electronic music is just a series of loops — sometimes overlapping with each other, sometimes evolving. So it's not surprising that the new laser-powered "Instrument for the Sonification of Everyday...
The Enemy Can't Run From These Brain Wave-Powered Binoculars
In the wars of the future, solider's eyes alone won't be enough to hunt down insurgents. They'll need a little bit of extra help from the new brain wave-powered binoculars that DARPA just invented. Nicknamed the "Luke Skywalker" binoculars when they...