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Meet the Artist: Tom Sachs

Artist Tom Sachs discusses his latest space program--Mission to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon. His expansive sculpture exhibition will fill Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco from the 16th of September until the 15th of January 2017.




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NASA Finds More Evidence of Water Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Europa

It's not aliens. So everyone calm the heck down. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA caught sight of water plumes bursting out from Europa’s icy surface. If any Europeans are lurking beneath the moon's surface, they just got a whole lot easier to reach.




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NASA's Starshade Is Like a Giant Visor for the Stars

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has come up with an ingenious solution to take better photographs of ultra-bright stars; a baseball diamond-sized folding shade that blocks out a star's powerful rays.




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A Scientist's Quest to 3D Scan Thousands of Species

Adam Summers is on a mission to scan all 33,000 species of ray-finned fish—and upload all of that data for anyone to make amazing 3D images, just like we did.




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NASA Creates Robots That Can Climb Walls

We take a look at some of the new robotic technology being developed at JPL's Robotics Lab, including robots that use "gecko" technology to grip walls and climb 90 degree surfaces.




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Did NASA Find a Second Earth?

An exoplanet expert tells us if Proxima Centauri B could be another Earth.




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Issa Rae on How She Wrote ‘That’ Rap

WIRED sat down with Issa Rae following the Oakland premiere of her new HBO show Insecure to ask her about the show's writing process, Los Angeles setting, and killer soundtrack




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Playing ‘Who Said It?’ with Issa Rae

Issa Rae loves female comedies. So we decided to quiz her on some of the funniest lines from Girlfriends, Living Single, and Sex and the City.




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The Capybara May Be Chill, But It Still Says No to Drugs

Get to know the biggest, most chillest rodent on Earth (all 175 pounds of it).




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NASA Explains Jupiter's Wild North & South Poles

We speak with the Juno mission's lead scientist to find out what lies under Jupiter's poles.




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Elon Musk Says Every New Tesla Will Drive Itself

Elon Musk wants you to take your hands off the wheel, foot off the gas, and let him do the driving. Rather, let his cars take over.




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NASA Engineers Show You How To Carve a Pumpkin

NASA can build rockets and land on the moon, but can they carve the ultimate Halloween pumpkin?




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Why Massaging Your Kale Makes It Taste Better

It sounds weird and a little creepy but science proves that massaging your kale removes the bitter taste the leaf can have. Makes sense, because who isn't a little less bitter after a good massage?




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These Self-Flying Helicopters Team Up to Fight Fires and Save Lives

Two Lockheed Martin helicopters, with help from a pair of drones, join forces to fight fires and save lives.




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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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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 - 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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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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No Matter What Trump Says, Your Gadgets Will Still Be Made in China

The massive consumer tech companies from China have come up with a plan for world domination: Make all of the gadgets used by everyone, everywhere.




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Get Ready for a Coffee Renaissance. Thanks, Genetics!

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the coffee plant and made the data public. That means we're about to see a coffee renaissance.




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Meet America's Newest, High-Techiest Weather Satellite

The GOES-16 atmospheric satellite is a super-powered machine that can predict the future. At least as far as weather is concerned.




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Watch the Difference 20 Years Has Made to Car Crash Safety

Watching car crash tests is horrifying and mesmerizing in equal measure. These crash tests show how much safer cars are after two decades of improved design.




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Meet the Bird That Soars Thousands of Miles at a Time

The albatross has an 11-foot wingspan and a serious wanderlust, flying thousands of miles nonstop.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - The Cast of 'Sesame Street' Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

Elmo, Big Bird, Count von Count, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie, Grover, Rosita, Abby Cadabby, and Oscar the Grouch hang with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about 'Sesame Street' and themselves. New episodes of Sesame Street’s 47th season air every Saturday on HBO, and viewers can watch Sesame Street everyday on HBO Family and PBS Kids.




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This Drone is Designed to Save Lives Then Disappear

The Everfly APSARA drone is an origami-like disposable drone made to deliver essential supplies in a humanitarian or disaster situation.




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So Cellphones Cause Cancer, Right? That Ain't What Science Says

Your grandparents might have warned you that cellphones cause brain cancer. Well, that's not at all what science says.




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Tech Support - Gordon Ramsay Answers Cooking Questions From Twitter

Gordon Ramsay uses the power of Twitter to answer some common cooking questions.




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The Satellite That Spies on America's Lightning

The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite are giving NOAA National Weather Service forecasters richer information about lightning that will help them alert the public to dangerous weather.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Samuel L. Jackson Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

"Kong: Skull Island" star Samuel L. Jackson answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself.




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Flight Lab - Suit Up and Fly High in NASA's Science Spy Plane

Suit up with a NASA high altitude ER-2 pilot as he prepares for a scientific research mission flying as high as 70,000 feet in the agency's modified U-2 spy plane.




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Self-Driving Cars Won't Save Everyone. In Fact, They'll Kill

Self-driving cars will totally eliminate traffic deaths, right? Nope. In fact, on rare occasions they'll choose to kill.




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Flight Lab - Climb Aboard a Boeing 747 That NASA Turned Into the World's Biggest Flying Telescope

To get the best space observations possible, NASA scientists fly around the world in a highly modified 747 carrying a giant telescope.




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Flight Lab - Inside NASA's Prototype Lab Where Model Planes Take Flight

Walk into NASA Armstrong's Sub-scale Research Lab and see the future of flight in miniature. The lab's model airplanes are used to test cutting edge aeronautical ideas like crash-avoidance and more efficient rocket launches.




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Ridley Scott Reveals the Origin of His AI Characters in the Alien Saga

Director Ridley Scott has featured several AI characters in his films. His most recent is Walter in Alien: Covenant. WIRED caught up with Ridley, his son Luke and the President of AMD to talk about AI.




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Flight Lab - We Trained to Become a NASA Research Pilot and It Ain't Easy

It takes a lot of training to become an elite NASA research pilot. WIRED's Jack Stewart gets a crash course in flying and rolling F-18 jets for science, of course.




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Flight Lab - This NASA Drone Flies Over Hurricanes For Better Weather Forecasts

NASA takes retired Global Hawk military drones and sets them up to fly dangerous missions monitoring some of the most extreme storms for better weather data.




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Flight Lab - Check Out the New Far-Out Fliers of NASA's Famed X-Plane Program

For seven decades experimental X-planes have been developed and flown in the Mojave desert. NASA is now building the future of flight like an all electric plane and a quieter supersonic jet.




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The Robot That's Roaming San Francisco's Streets to Deliver Food

Hungry? But you don't want to deal with a human? If you live in San Francisco's Mission district, you can get your food delivered by a robot named Marble.




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NASA Is Sending Cassini out with a Funeral Fit for Scientific Royalty

Twenty years ago, the Cassini spacecraft blasted off from earth on an epic journey to find out more about Saturn. Now that journey comes to a glorious end.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Salma Hayek & Eugenio Derbez Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

'How To Be a Latin Lover' stars Salma Hayek and Eugenio Derbez answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.




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How NASA Visualizes Stunning Worlds Without Ever Seeing Them

Every time a new exoplanet is discovered, the announcement is accompanied by an artist’s rendering of that world. So when scientists recently discovered the seven exoplanets of Trappist-1, NASA's visual artists had their work cut out for them.




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How to Get Started with Encrypted Messaging

It’s time to start using an encrypted messaging app. Why? Using end-to-end encryption means that no one can see what you’re sharing back and forth.




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Welcome to Salinas! The Farming Town Where Robots Reign

In Salinas Valley, about an hour and a half south of San Francisco, farmers and tech types are joining forces to turn this place into a kind of Silicon Valley for agriculture.




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How to Make Your Browsing Data More Private than a Thousand Incognito Windows

Thanks to an assist from Congress, your cable company has the legal right to sell your web-browsing data without your consent. This is how to protect your data from preying eyes.




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Meet 4 of NASA's Newest Astronaut Candidates

Twelve new astronaut candidates just joined the ranks of those with the right stuff. Picked from a pool of 18,000 they may be among the first to journey to Mars. Four spoke with WIRED about getting the call and what they hope to accomplish.




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Vsauce Answers the 100 Most Googled Questions

Michael, Kevin, and Jake from Vsauce attempt to answer the 100 most Googled questions.




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Meet Salto, the Tiny Robot With a Giant Leap

Salto is a tiny robot with an incredible leap and a bright future in rescue operations.




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Watch a Homemade Robot Crack a Safe in Just 15 Minutes

Nathan Seidle’s wife gave him this already locked safe as a gift with no combination. Weird present, but he loves a good challenge. So he built a safecracking robot.




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The Full Video of a Robot Cracking a Safe

Watch this safe-cracking robot open a safe in 15 minutes.




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Incredible Old-School Footage of NASA’s X-Plane Program

NASA has released gobs of archival footage to its Youtube channel for your viewing pleasure. Don't thank us, thank NASA.