WhatsApp just made the scope of the Apple-FBI encryption battle look kinda small. WIRED's senior staff writer, Cade Metz, breaks down exactly why this is a big deal.

Look at the nudibranch. Beautiful, right? That's its way of saying it will mess you up. You see, the nudibranch packs a punch–in a very unusual way

The hydra's got kind of a jellyfish thing going on, with tentacles it uses to snag prey. But this tiny freshwater creature regenerates itself over and over again.

Sony's pirate-themed adventure makes multiple references to another classic video game pirate.

In the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence, the alien spacecraft seems to rip buildings from the ground using gravitational force. Is that physically possible? Nope. But that didn't stop us from calculating the mass it would need in order to destroy Earth.

Kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen brings his mesmerizing wind-powered creatures made of PVC-pipe to the San Francisco Exploratorium.

For gamers, World of Warcraft represents a massive universe in which they’ve spent many hours. But for many moviegoers, WoW’s Azeroth is a completely foreign place they know nothing about. So for his new movie, Warcraft, director Duncan Jones—a gamer himself—had to create a world that would bring in new fans and make long-time WoW players feel like they were coming home. In this interview with WIRED, he explains how he worked with Industrial Light & Magic to make that happen.

A video rendering of an electric autonomous shuttle dropping Buckeyes off at work.

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects in Central Intelligence used to de-age The Rock and Kevin Hart into high school, teenaged versions of themselves. Weta digital puts the The Rock’s face onto Vine star Sione’s body for an amazing locker room shower dance scene you won’t want to miss.

NASA started a blaze aboard the unmanned Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo vehicle. It’s the Spacecraft Fire Experiment. Seriously, that’s exactly what NASA is calling it.

Mike Seymour sits down with "Independence Day: Resurgence" director Roland Emmerich and discusses the astonishing visual effects used in his newest picture, as well as the revolutionary new N-Cam system.

MatPat, AsapSCIENCE, The Slow Mo Guys and Burnie Burns answer the internet's most searched questions about YouTube, influencers, fame, and of course themselves.

Few things get grillers more riled up than arguing about gas versus charcoal. Let us and our friends at Chefsteps settle this debate once and for all.

Lost luggage is down by 65% thanks to some new tech. Follow the roller coaster ride that your bags make into the bowels of the airport.

You might think that you can only get soft serve at the ice cream parlor—not true! Let us and our friends at ChefSteps prove that all it takes is some dry ice and a little science to make your own ice cream at home.

Lactose intolerant folks rejoice! You can make a latte without milk. All you need is a bit of science and some xanthan gum.

To avoid severe weather pilots used to carry 40 pound briefcases with piles of paperwork and information for their flight. Not anymore.

Nothing says fancy dining quite like a blob of foam. So soothing, such a great mouth feel. And get this: you can easily make it at home, expensive restaurants be damned!

Charlotte Drury, Maggie Nichols, and Aly Raisman talk to WIRED about the skill, precision, and control they employ when performing various Gymnastic moves and when training for the Olympics.

What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist? WIRED takes in-depth look at the mechanics behind the athletes featuring Conor Dwyer, Elizabeth Biesel, Matt Grevers, Nathan Adrian, Rayler Clary, and Ryan Lochte.

WIRED takes an in-depth look at the science and mathematics behind Olympic Archery with Brady Ellison and Mackenzie Brown.

What does it take to be an Olympic sprinter? Power and aggression. WIRED talks to Allyson Felix, Lashawn Merritt, Ashton Eaton, Jarryd Wallace, and Dawn Harper about the science behind the sport, and the mechanics behind propelling their bodies from the blocks to the finish line.

The pressure cooker. It sounds, well, terrifying. But not only is it a perfectly safe way to cook if you’re not screwing around, thanks to the laws of physics, it’s a perfectly speedy way to cook too.

WIRED explores the science behind what it really takes to be an olympic BMX athlete, featuring Alise Post and Connor Fields.

A single car sold for 18 million dollars at one of the fanciest auto shows in the United States. Here are the five most notable vintage cars on auction at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

This 238-foot beauty isn’t just oddly comfortable—it comes equipped with some serious tech for some serious oceanography.

Krige Schabort is gearing up for his ultimate paratriathlon at his sixth and final Paralympics in Rio. WIRED takes a look at the high tech bike that's going to get him over the finish line.

Design FX dives into the incredible special effects of BBC America's Orphan Black. Mike Seymour breaks down how the team at Intelligent Creatures and Emmy Award nominated actress Tatiana Maslany work together to create convincing clones; with a combination of visual effects, rotoscoping, and incredible acting ability.

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.

WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss how artificial intelligence might up-end economies and how societies can adapt.

Barack Obama won't be president for much longer. But while he still is, he's seeking to cement his legacy as a booster of science and technology.

Centuries ago, middle-class Egyptians buried their mummies with masks made out of recycled papyrus. Many of those sheets were covered in Ancient Greek text, which is hard to read without destroying the masks. Now a team of imagining experts are finding ways to read the texts without pulling the ancient artifacts apart.

Kate Rubins is a biologist-turned-astronaut who's studied infectious disease in a biosafety level 4 facility and on the ground in Congo. That wasn't enough for her, so she went to space to sequence some DNA.

NASA Astronauts voted from the International Space Station thanks to some nifty legislation, but what about when they are 34 million miles away on Mars?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

David Byrne, former Talking Heads frontman, gives a tour of Neurosociety, his new experimental theater meets neuroscience experience in Silicon Valley.

The MIT Media Lab is using innovation to boil efficient teamwork down to a science. With an enhanced ability to communicate across teams, MIT is creating a workplace that shares ideas in unprecedented ways. The Changing Places group at MIT tackles large challenges like fighting pollution and urban modeling; the latter of which is being solved by using a combination of lego bricks and augmented reality.

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

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.

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

The Connectome is a comprehensive diagram of all the neural connections existing in the brain. WIRED has challenged neuroscientist Bobby Kasthuri to explain this scientific concept to 5 different people; a 5 year-old, a 13 year-old, a college student, a neuroscience grad student and a connectome entrepreneur.

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.

Your phone might automatically dim its blue light at night. But does this really help you fall asleep?