Each year the World Health Organization determines which of the thousands of influenza variants are most likely to circulate. Flu vaccines then use these variants at the starting point when developing the annual flu shot. Find out what’s inside the influenza-warding shot.

Do you or love music? Does someone on your gift list? Then you probably need some nice headphones. Here's how to pick the right pair and fit them for the best sound.

Find out how human bones inspired the Eiffel Tower through the design principle of structural hierarchy.

Not sure what to get your tech-head friends for the holidays? YouTube star MKBHD reviews the Fitbit ChargeHR, Verizon’s Droid Turbo 2, and the Bose SoundLink mini speaker so you can get the right gadget for the right guy or gal.

As the NFL begins to address the existential problems that brain trauma pose, see how innovations in protection, impact monitoring, and training techniques are being developed to protect players.

The Burke Institute in White Plains, NY is using innovative techniques to more accurately diagnose brain trauma, and hopefully better understand and prevent degenerative brain conditions like CTE.

What's Darth Vader's death count? How many Lego sets has the franchise sold? Which nation accepts Star Wars collectable coins as real currency? Find out everything you didn’t know about the epic franchise, as told by Star Wars action figures.

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It's not all twinkly lights, wrapped presents, and Yule logs. Uncover the darker side of Christmas from the 83 million trees that get chopped down to the $616.9 billion spent in November and December.

the NFL made no secret of its desire to bring American football to a new international stage.

LG's Signature Fridge and Samsung's Family Hub Refrigerator concepts are a glimpse of the future of connected, touchscreen and app-controlled refrigerators that might even order their own groceries.

Print those selfies immediately! Polaroid's Snap camera is perfect for any party and it costs less than $100.

Robot museum guides, bitcoin ATMS, and levitation trains – no this isn’t a sci-fi movie, its a travel guide. In this episode of Good As Gold, we give tech-lovers the thing they’ve been missing: tech-centric travel recommendations. Get a closer look at two of the most advanced cities in the world with the help of travel pros Claire Marshall and Peter Bragiel.

Seawall-topping king tides occur when extra-high tides line up with other meteorological anomalies. In the past they were a novelty or a nuisance. Now they hint at the new normal, when sea level rise will render current coastlines obsolete.

Visualization specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robert Hurt, tells us how he balances scientific accuracy and creativity when creating stunning pieces of art that double as realistic depictions of space.

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects that earned “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” an Oscar nod. See how Industrial Light & Magic crafted complex action sequences, detailed environments, and realistic characters with the help of advanced motion-capture technology and performances from actors like Lupita Nyong’o.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Blogger Christen Rochon breaks down her top three picks for the lucky lady in your life. Brought to you by eBay

Ransomware is a rising type of malware that locks your keyboard or computer until you pay a ransom, typically in Bitcoin. Find out how the sophisticated hacks happen and learn what you can do to avoid falling victim to them.

The Bay Bridge, which links San Francisco and Oakland, is being methodically dismantled, piece by incredibly heavy piece. Here's how 2,500 ton truss supports will be removed.

In 2004 scientists discovered a large, near-earth asteroid named Apophis. Initially, it was predicted to impact the earth in 2029, leading to global devastation. Thankfully, it’s now expected to miss. Physicist Marina Brozovic from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains how her team used measurements and statistics to track the potentially catastrophic mass.

As a physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marina Brozovic studies and measures near-earth asteroids—you know, the ones that can potentially cause catastrophic damage. Watch as Brozovic explains how her team tracks the orbit of these large masses and how NASA would prepare if one were to come barreling towards earth.

Welcome to the Institute of Illegal Images, San Francisco's museum of LSD blotter paper art.

Summon is fundamental to Tesla's goal of making driverless cars—and it won't stay a party trick forever.

In 2014, startup Arx Pax made headlines with the Hendo Hoverboard. With some helpful input from Tony Hawk and others, now we have the Hendo Hoverboard 2.0, and Brent Rose just scored the first ride on it.

Acura's NSX hybrid supercar is capable of a blistering 191 mph but to make a car this fast, you have to build it slowly and precisely.

The HTC Vive system is meant to deliver what HTC and Valve call “room-size experiences”— that means you’ll need an entire room, and a chunk of time, to get your VR playpen set up.

Trap-jaw spiders may be tiny but their unusual jaws pack a serious and lightning fast punch. Researchers using high-speed cameras recently discovered how speedy and lethal the spiders' bite can be.

Fair warning. This video is about the botfly's horrific larvae, which grow and feed in human flesh. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Hey listen, we’re all lopsided. You’d look weird as hell if you were perfectly symmetrical. But the strawberry squid is really lopsided, with one tiny eye and one giant eye.

Photographer Joel Strong discusses his satirical stop-motion technique used in "Heads of State," which imagines the presidential front-runners as everyday New Yorkers.

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

Our childhood hermit crab has a rather more … sizable cousin: the 3-foot-wide, 9-pound coconut crab that can rip coconuts and sometimes, well, kittens to pieces.

In the DIY sneaker world, where custom can mean anything from Sharpie swooshes to complex reconstructions, Ferrato offers a unique service: He dreams up new shoe designs and stitches them together from scratch. That kind of artistry comes at a price. Ferrato's shoes start at $1000.

Inside the massive Siemens train factory near Sacramento, Ca, building one of the most advanced, and fastest, trains in the US.

Armed with 20 gallons of liquid nitrogen, Brent Rose super freezes objects the Internet has never seen frozen and uses a Phantom high-speed camera to record their destruction in super slo-motion.

In the first episode of the new series Flight Mode, WIRED takes you into a wildly complex mission control where Delta monitors thousands of flights 24/7.

The sea spider isn’t actually a spider, but it’s genitals are on its legs. Which is nice.

Master Builder Robbie McCarthy show us all the hidden secrets of California's LEGOLAND.

Design FX dives into the incredible special effects of Star Trek Beyond. From the digital construction of the Starship Enterprise all the way down to the extraterrestrials themselves, Mike Seymour takes us into warp drive as he breaks this successful franchise down to its DNA.

Tesla's Gigafactory, under construction in Sparks, Nevada, will be the largest building in the world, by footprint, when it's finished. The batteries it produces are crucial to Tesla's plan to make affordable electric vehicles.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog discusses his new film 'Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World' which examines the Internet and the data revolution.

The $212,000 coupe is the first all-new model from a new regime leading the famed British automaker.

Liquids. They’re so… liquidy. But our friends at ChefSteps have a quick and easy way to trap them, in beautiful delicious little spheres.

It’s surprisingly easy to get the two confused. Both are tall badasses known for saying outlandish things. So we threw some quotes at Mike Colter, who plays Luke Cage in Netflix's new series, and asked him to guess who said them—Nic Cage or Luke Cage.

The garden eel is harmless and actually pretty cute. But get a bunch of them together and things start looking a wee bit creepy.

Genetics is often just moving tiny amounts of liquid around. So Counsyl, a genetic testing company has hired some robots. Actually, they didn’t just hire them; they built their own to do the work most scientists hate doing.

Design FX dives into the incredible special effects of Pete's Dragon. How were the team at WETA able to make Elliot (the titular dragon) appear invisible? Mike Seymour breaks down the techniques used to accomplish this spectacular effect.

The ride-sharing giant is in Pittsburgh for its latest big move: the country’s first autonomous taxi service. Select Uber users can now ride in self-driving cars, with humans at the wheel for an emergency.

The iPhone 7 Plus is touted as *the* mobile low-light camera. It’s got dual lenses, an f/1.8 aperture, image stabilization, and an even brighter flash. But how much better is it? We tested it out by filming this entire video with iPhone 7.

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.