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Food Myths: Does Turkey Make You Sleepy?

You finish that thanksgiving feast and immediately all you want to do is sleep. Many people blame the turkey for their sudden comatose state, but that may not be 100% true.




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What Do You Get When a Pig and a Monkey Have a Baby? A Coati

The coati is kind of a raccoon but also maybe a monkey with the nose of a pig. In other words, a critter that can’t seem to figure out what it wants to be.




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Bumped Off Your Flight? Know Your Travel Rights

It's bound to happen to you— your flight is cancelled, delayed or the airline bumps you. That's why it's important to know your rights when your travel plans go astray.




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Thermal Imaging Tech Helps Protect Endangered Wildlife

World Wildlife Fund is using thermal imaging technology and artificial intelligence to see and capture wildlife poachers as they stalk endangered animals in the dark.




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Whether It's Farmed or Wild, Here's How to Cook Your Salmon Right

If you overcooked your pan-seared salmon, you may be tempted to blame it on the type of salmon you bought, but none of that matters if you understand the chemistry of how this colorful fish cooks.




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Meet the Arapaima, the Swimming Tank of the Amazon

What's 10 feet long, 440 pounds, and armored like a tank? The arapaima, perhaps the most peculiar fish in the Amazon.




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Behold the RC Off-Roader of Our Childhood Dreams

Meet the RR10 Bomber from Axial. The $400 RC car is a 1/10th-scale recreation of a real 4x4 and it was built for crawling across the gnarliest trails.




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Why Banning Kratom May Make the Opioid Epidemic Even Worse

In August the DEA announced plans to ban Kratom, a herbal substance used to treat pain, anxiety and in some cases opioid addiction. A group of tenacious users got the agency to back down and extend public comment until December 1st. Now a tough decision lies before the DEA.




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This Radical Redesign Could Keep Gas Engines Pumping

Achates Power is reviving the century-old opposed piston layout to make gas-powered cars more efficient.




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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond & James May Race Toy Cars

Former "Top Gear" and current "The Grand Tour" hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May put their driving skills to the ultimate test...by racing toy cars.




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The Scientific Secret to Making Crispy Chicken Skin

You love crispy chicken skin but you always dry the breast out, right? Here's the solution using a little science.




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Scientists Create a Light-Guided Robotic Stingray Using Rat Parts

A team of scientists at Harvard created an artificial stingray out of rat parts, which can be remote-controlled around a tank using light beams as part of the team's ongoing research on how to make artificial organs.




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Jumping Spiders Jump Around, Jump Up, Jump Up, and Get Down

Meet the little spider that goes about life a little differently, in the sense that it actively stalks the hell out of its prey.




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How Oculus Designed Its Touch VR Controllers

Oculus Touch controllers are here – finally putting our hands in the same virtual space as our heads. Touch was years and scores of prototypes in the making. Watch to see how the form and function came together.




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Science of Teams: How NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Used Teamwork to Reach Saturn

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses teamwork every day to accomplish incredible scientific feats.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Jennifer Aniston & Jason Bateman Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

Office Christmas Party stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman hang with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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How Billions of Dollars of Goods Get to You

The Port of Los Angeles is one of the busiest ports in the country, and only gets busier during the holidays. With more global shipping now that ever, new technologies are emerging that can mend choke points in the process.




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How to Take a Great Holiday Family Photo

Family photos can be stressful. Let WIRED come to the rescue.




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Design FX - The Amazing Visual Effects of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"

The Harry Potter prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, finds Eddie Redmayne performing a mating ritual in front of a massive computer-generated beast. Using a combination of puppets and CGI, a slew of effects houses were able to craft convincing monsters to populate J.K. Rowling's imaginative world.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Kate McKinnon & Vanessa Bayer Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

Office Christmas Party stars Kate McKinnon and Vanessa Bayer hang with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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Rhett & Link Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones

Internetainers Rhett & Link gather up their courage and show us the last things they did with their phones. "Rhett and Link's Buddy System" Good Mythical Morning @rhettandlink




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Remembering Space Pioneer John Glenn: 1921-2016

In 1962 astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. The feat paved the way to US dominance in the space race and the mission to the moon. Glenn, ever a champion of human exploration, died December 8, 2016.




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How to Make Deliciously Safe Eggnog With Raw Eggs and Booze

You wish you liked eggnog more than you do, right? Well, with this recipe and a few science tricks, you'll make eggnog that is not only delicious but brilliantly boozy too.




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[Branded Content] Working Together for a Common Goal; The Science of Teams: Atlassian

Produced for Atlassian by the WIRED Brand Lab. The process of team work is all around us. From construction, to music, to food, the greatest achievements are born out of teams. On its surface, collaboration is a seemingly simple process, but there is much more underneath. WIRED teams up with the experts and uses science to showcase the mechanics behind working as a team.




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The Incredible Gecko That Looks Exactly Like a Tree

Meet the leaf-tailed gecko, which deploys some of the most astounding camouflage in the animal kingdom.




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Science of Teams: How Prologue Brings Its Visual Effects to Virtual Reality

Visual Effects house Prologue has worked on some of the biggest movie franchises around. The different teams at Prologue deftly work together to bring some of their most familiar assets over to the virtual space.




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Mr. Coffee vs Keurig: How Do They Compare?

Which coffee maker is king? We teardown the Mr. Coffee 12-Cup automatic and Keurig K55; two coffee machines built decades apart.




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Surviving Family Occasions with Tips From Google's Mindfulness Mentor

Family occasions are stressful especially around the holidays.Google's Chade-Meng Tan shares some mindfulness tricks that'll keep you sane.




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Airbus' Futuristic Jet Concept Comes With Flying Spas and Bars

The Transpose concept uses modular architecture to keep life in the sky fresh and comfortable.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - The Cast of "Rogue One" Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" stars Felicity Jones, Donnie Yen, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendelsohn and Alan Tudyk answer the internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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Meet the Blind Man Who Convinced Google Its Self-Driving Car Is Finally Ready

Google is getting serious about self-driving cars. So serious that it put a legally blind man in one that drove him around safely on his own. The successful trip means that the tech giant can now launch its own self-driving car company, which it's calling Waymo.




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How to Fight the Bad Logic of the Internet | Argument Clinic

There's a lot of bad logic out there. WIRED's Jason Tanz explains how to spot and fight the dumbest arguments online.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - Brent Rose's Ultimate Survival Bag

Bug-out bags/survival kits are a controversial topic. Everybody has a different philosophy about what makes a good one. This is Brent's. While bigger and heavier than a lot of the bags you'll see online, you can keep it in the closet by your front door or the trunk of your car, and you'll be prepared for an emergency that could last many days. Brent's kit doubles as a slick backpacking setup, so you'll get to know your gear extremely well, and you get to have fun with it, too.




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Smosh Shows Us the Last Thing on Their Phones

Internet super-celebrities Smosh gather up their courage and show us the last things on their phones.




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The Enduring Mystery of What the Hell's in LaCroix

LaCroix is the fizzy water of the moment. It's just H2O, CO2, and natural flavor. But what's "natural flavor" and is it safe to consume by the daily 12-pack? Asking for a friend.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

"Passengers" stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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WIRED's Gift Guide for the Outdoorsy Type in Your Life

A few of WIRED's favorite gifts to make any outdoor outing more fun.




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WIRED's Gift Guide for the Great Indoors

A few of WIRED's favorite gear and gadgets for homebodies.




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How Alan Tudyk Became Rogue One's K-2SO

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" star Alan Tudyk plays K-2SO, an Imperial droid who was reprogrammed and finds himself with the rebellion. Alan explains what it was like controlling K-2SO, and how they went about making the best movie they could.




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How the Morpho Butterfly Can Be Blue But Also Not Really Blue

The morpho butterfly appears blue but it isn't actually. It looks blue not because of pigment but because of some very fancy scales on its wings.




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See Everything That Happens When a Package is Shipped

Ever wonder what happens to a package when it gets shipped? We stuck a GoPro in a clear acrylic box, had it filming the entire time, and got a chance to see what the package went through on its way to your doorstep.




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Hyundai's Exo-Skeleton Makes Everyone an Iron Man

Hyundai, the car manufacturer, is getting into other forms of mobility and work with its two new exo-skeletons.




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Look Inside a Pig’s Face While It Eats

Thanks to XROMM technology scientists can see moving bones inside animals in real time. It's perfect for seeing inside a repaired knee or for figuring out how dinosaurs may have moved.




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2016: The Year in Autonomous Driving

2016 was the year that self-driving vehicles really took off. WIRED looks back at how much transportation is being changed by autonomous cars, trucks, and drones.




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WIRED's Top Science Stories of 2016

From gene editing and gravitational waves and the zika virus these were the top science stories of 2016.




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WIRED's Favorite Absurd Creatures of 2016

Revisit WIRED's favorite Absurd Creatures of 2016 – the magnificent sex, food and fighting obsessed rhino beetle, the fish-bashing kingfisher bird and the aptly named peanut-head bugs.




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WIRED's Top Gadget Stories of 2016

2016 was the year a lot changed in gear. We lost headphone jacks on iPhones, got Snap's Spectacles and artificial intelligence is now powering a lot of our gadgets.




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WIRED's Top Culture Stories of 2016

2016 was the year of retro-mania fueled Pokemon Go and Stranger Things and the beginning of a more diverse television future. Here are WIRED's top stories from the world of movies, music and TV.




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WIRED's Top Transportation Stories of 2016

2016 was a wild year in transportation ¬– from self-driving cars to smarter cities – WIRED looks back at some of the biggest stories about getting around.




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WIRED's Top Design Stories of 2016

Designers tackled some of the most pressing issues of our time in 2016. From equality to climate change, here are WIRED's most inspirational design stories of the year.