After billions of miles and nearly a decade in space New Horizons flew as close to Pluto as it ever will. The probe is already sending back the first beautiful images of the mysterious dwarf planet.

Time to turn up and represent your inner nerd. Watch #GeeksWhoDrink on @Syfy this Thursday, starting at 11/10c.

Ant-Man director Peyton Reed spoke with WIRED about bringing the tiny superhero to the big screen, some easter eggs for Marvel fans and how Paul Rudd preserved the wry humor of the original comic books.

Sharpen your minds with @Syfy's latest nerdy trivia gameshow #GeeksWhoDrink. Tune in this Thursday at 11/10c.

You saw him choke Comic Con goers at this year's SDCC. Get to know cosplayer Dupree Jones as he shows us what it takes to transform into Darth Vader.

He's back—this time in a time-traveling standoff. See how Arnold Schwarzenegger faced off against a digitized version of his younger self.

Fly over Pluto's beautiful mountains and the plains of its "heart" in this amazing NASA animation built with some of the first close-up images from the New Horizons probe.

Welcome to the post-natural world. In the August issue of WIRED, we explore Crispr, a new technique for editing DNA that makes it as easy as cut and paste. Ready or not, evolution is about to get an upgrade. Also this month: Mark and Jay Duplass are Hollywood’s unlikely new moguls, a WIRED writer builds an untraceable AR-15 assault rifle right here in our office, and a nonprofit that helps people from the poorest places in the world learn to be task rabbits of the 21st-century economy.

Two hackers have developed a tool that can hijack a Jeep over the internet. WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg takes the SUV for a spin on the highway while the hackers attack it from miles away.

Electric personal transportation devices (aka “rideables”) are everywhere. We’re seeing them under everyone from Justin Bieber to J.R. Smith to Casey Neistat, but are any of them worth a damn? We put four of the most promising rideables to the test and I’ve got the scars to prove it. -Brent

Pixels director Chris Columbus talks to WIRED about the fun of 8-bit arcade games and building a real life Donkey Kong set for the new action comedy.

More than 3,200 players scattered throughout the streets of Zurich to evade a “hunter” stalking them in a Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake through a GPS game app on contestants' phones. The winner, who stayed away longest, drove off in the stalker car.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are using an ultra HD 4K camera to record experiments like this water bubble with an antacid inside.

A look at Oculus Story Studio's first virtual reality short film, "Henry" an animated porcupine who loves hugs.

Security researchers Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger can hack into TrackingPoint self-aiming rifles and make the famously accurate guns miss the intended target.

Writer Fred Vogelstein describes the moving images photographer Elinor Carucci made of his family as they seek a cannabis derived treatment for his son Sam’s epilepsy.

Beautiful new images of Ceres, the pock-marked asteroid, are being beamed back from NASA’s Dawn probe.

Booze Science is better drinking through chemistry. WIRED articles editor Adam Rogers explores the scientific ways ice can influence a cocktail with Jennifer Colliau, beverage director at San Francisco's innovative bar The Interval at The Long Now.

A pair of security researchers can hack into some electric skateboards' Bluetooth controllers and pull the boards out from under a rider's feet.

Find out how the visual effects came together for the end of season five on Game of Thrones, including Daenerys' elaborate and cinematic escape with her drogon.

Marine captain Katie Higgins is the first female pilot to fly in the Blue Angels stunning air shows. She pilots “Fat Albert” a C-130 cargo transporter that is a crowd favorite for its low passes, dives and backwards taxi.

Scientists don't know exactly how the larva of the Reclinervellus nielseni wasp mind-controls spiders into building a special web to protect it but they do know that they eat their hosts and steal their webs.

In the world of horrifyingly painful stinging creatures, the tarantula hawk ranks so high that the actual scientific advice if you're stung is to lie down and scream. Dandy if you're a human, but if you are a tarantula, the wasp's prey, it's even worse.

Station to Station took over the Barbican Centre in London for 30 days this summer (June 27 - July 26) with a continuously evolving living exhibition. Each day of Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening, a new 15-second film was posted to @stntostn and these were brought together to create this complete 7.5 minute film. More at: www.stationtostation.com/30-dayfilm

NASA's DSCOVR satellite is sending back some of the most amazing images of earth ever seen, including the moon passing over our planet, beamed back from a million miles away. DSCOVR isn't just out there making pretty pictures, it's also an advanced warning system for potentially dangerous space weather.

Cats can make you go nuts and it's not just the emotional manipulation that's driving you batty...it might be a parasite.

For the first time, astronauts ate fresh lettuce they'd grown from seed aboard the International Space Station. One small bite for man could be a giant leap for manned missions to Mars.

San Diego chef Brian Malarkey shows us what it takes to prepare a large-scale formal dinner, served aboard an old train car, no less. Held during Comic-Con, the Patrón Secret Dining Society event brought together foodies and YouTubers like Jake Roper of Vsauce3 for a night of superhero-inspired dining. Sponsored by Patrón Tequila

Wonder what it’s like to attend Comic-Con? Jake Roper of the YouTube channel Vsauce3 offers an insider’s look at the people who bring the event to life, from the designers who create fan art on Artists Alley to the Doctor Who-obsessed cosplayers. Sponsored by Patrón Tequila

The ocean sunfish, equipped with thick, mucous-covered lips, can grow to 10 feet long and 5,000 pounds on a diet of calorie-poor jellyfish.

Ocean Currents Create Garbage Patches.

Photographer Debi Cornwall made numerous trips to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base to make startlingly banal images of detainee and military personnel life. Children's jungle gyms, tiki bars and the overstuffed chair and shackles of the "Compliant Detainee Media Room."

These cars introduced new forms of beauty---many of them clever solutions to vexing technological problems---that lived on for years and even decades.

Hackers released the names of millions of users of the infidelity website Ashley Madison. Here's why the hackers say they dumped the data online.

With sturdy, spiral trunks and deep roots that intertwine with neighboring trees, a live oak is a force to be reckoned with. Find out how architects and engineers are starting to think like a tree when designing safe and resilient structures.

In the decade since Hurricane Katrina, tools for tracking and modeling powerful storms have grown in sophistication and detail.

Hippos are tough animals with tough hides. So tough that there's a species of leech that has evolved to live and feed in the only part of the hippo where the sun don't shine. Ladies and gentlemen, the life and times of the hippo butt leech.

The Tesla P90D is the fastest Tesla on the market. WIRED associate editor Alex Davies gets behind the wheel to test out "ludicrous mode" which uses both of the car's electric motors for acceleration speeds normally only experienced in supercars from the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini.

NASA dropped a 1974 Cessna 172 airplane tail-first from 100 feet up to test emergency locator transmitters, or ELTs. Data from the drop, including high-speed video, will help researchers test ELT performance and robustness.

Scientists are looking to an unlikely source for new ways to fight bacteria. Could the skin of a Galapagos shark hold the key to warding off hospital-born bacteria and superbugs?

The all new redesigned 2016 Chevy Volt.

With a massive engine and no creature comforts like back seats to weigh it down, the Shelby GT350R is a candidate for the most fun Mustang ever. WIRED associate editor Alex Davies takes it for a spin on the famed Laguna Seca racetrack.

Range Rover is developing a safety concept connecting a camera on the back of trailers with a driver's rearview mirror eliminating the blindspots of towing.

Photographer Chris Burkard doesn't make the usual images of surfers. He and his crew don thick wetsuits and head for the poles to make photos of surfers paddling out in slushy cold waters off of Norway, Iceland and Chile.

The Force Awakens isn't even in theaters yet but the new Star Wars toys are already out. None is more exciting than Sphero's swivel-headed ball of cute, the BB-8 robot. Here's how the little toy company built the droid we are all looking for.

It hasn't been seen in more than 30 years and it lives on dead fish. No, it's not Gollum, it's called the crusty nautilus. Not because it’s brittle or irritable or anything, it’s just encrusted with a layer of slime.

I have been part robot since May. I've learned a lot about how robotic and human co-workers have to adjust to get along in the office of the future while piloting my $2500 Double telepresence robot. Here are my rules of robot human workplace interaction.

Most people think of carbon dioxide as a poison, but in nature it’s a building block. Find out how we can imitate coral reef by using CO2 as a raw material for the creation of concrete.

You may know it as the gorgeous car Ferris Bueller and his friends drive around Chicago but to car fans it's the Ferrari 250GT California Spyder short wheelbase model, the one with the super-rare headlight covers.

Apple presented new a Watch partnership, its new iPad Pro and Pencil stylus, a new Apple TV and of course, the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus with 3D Touch, 4K video and Live Photo features.