Why don’t space shuttles float away? How do you know when to go to sleep? Astronaut Kjell Lindgren answers questions about life in space from a few intrepid kindergartners.

The Concorde jet could go Mach 2 but it was so loud that it was banned from flying over land. Now NASA engineers think they have a design that could muffle the boom and might usher in the two-and-half hour New York to LA flight.

In light of the current open application for new astronauts, Brent Rose heads out to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to meet with real astronauts and try out real training facilities–let's see if he has what it takes to make it to space.

The match between Google's AlphaGo and a top ranked human player is a way of judging the suddenly rapid progress of artificial intelligence that may show how far these technologies have come—and how far they may go.

Two NASA astronauts take us on a tour of the T-38 plane, which can fly faster than the speed of sound and has been used to train astronauts since 1961.

We brought a renowned Houston chef to NASA's Food Lab so he could try and provide a fine dining experience using only space food.

Not only have we never seen the Divergent movies, but no one we know has, either. (Seriously—we asked everyone!) So instead, we watched all the trailers we could, and made our best guesses as to what actually happens in these things.

Mozido? Nutanix? We gave the Silicon Valley cast the names of real startups and asked them to guess what they do. This is NSFW, so put those headphones on.

Tax season really snuck up on you again, didn't it? You still have until Monday, April 18 to file and pay your taxes, and while that's plenty of time to get all your paperwork in order, you might need a little help with these apps.

Three years after that first devkit came out it’s showing up at people’s houses starting now. The Oculus Rift proves that this is not a phase. This is the first real step into the world of VR.

Doing some home improvement, but you're hoping to avoid a trip to urgent care? These apps will help you with those DIY projects.

On April 8, SpaceX will launch an inflatable, inhabitable bouncy castle to the International Space Station and it may be the start of the first hotel chain in Space.

NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Jeff Williams and European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake are currently living on board the International Space station and answer the internet’s most searched questions in the latest installment of WIRED’s Autocomplete Interview.

The Werkstatt-01 from Moog Music is a synthesizer you build yourself. It's also a valuable tool for learning how these mystical analog machines work. It'll cost you around $200.

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.

You probably don’t give your lamp much thought when you switch it on. But the San Francisco design firm Box Clever recently spent two years thinking about a lamp perfect for designers.

In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail.

To celebrate Star Wars Day, we brought members of the Empire to FABberz NYC to see how they would fare against a real working laser. May the 4th be with you!

WIRED destroys a massive LEGO Super Star Destroyer.

Stanford University's new Ocean One is a humanoid undersea robot designed for deep diving and extreme manipulation, thanks to its haptic feedback controls.

Hyperloop One successfully tested its propulsion system in the Nevada desert. It's an important step, but the journey to making the Hyperloop a reality has just begun.

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.

Brent Rose tries out a new “Mixed Reality” software developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The software allows virtual elements to be merged with the user’s actual environment, creating a world in which real and virtual objects can interact. Brent stress tests the HoloLens and shows us how much the new tech can really do.

When the new Kings basketball stadium is completed this fall, they hope it’ll be so outrageously technologically advanced that it will even wow fans from Silicon Valley.

Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, and Robert Kazinsky answer the web's most searched questions about themselves and World of Warcraft.

Magic Leap, the mixed-reality company, is joining forces with Lucasfilm’s most forward-looking division: xLab.

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

The X-57 will be essentially like flying a Tesla. It's part of NASA’s goals to reduce fuel use, emissions, and noise with innovative aircraft design.

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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.

If humans are going to get to Mars, they're going to need rockets with some serious liftoff power. NASA’s Space Launch System is the most powerful rocket in the world and engineers are going to blast it, for testing purposes, of course.

In ‘Swiss Army Man’ a guy stranded in the wilderness gets by thanks to a corpse and a dying cell phone. The Daniels came to the WIRED office, so we asked them to show us what was on their smartphones.

Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, and Adam Devine from 'Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates' show us the most recent items on their phones - from texts, to safari pages, to emojis, videos, alarm clocks and more!

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.

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

The experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory explain the incredibly precise, solar-powered Juno mission to the radiation-strewn planet Jupiter.

Warp speed, deflector shields, teletransportation-- what's real and what's not in Star Trek? No one better to tell us than NASA's engineers at the Jet Propulsion Lab.

Pilots spend hours in multi-million dollar simulators, preparing for the worst cast scenario. In this episode Flight Mode, WIRED's Jack Stewart gets a taste of what pilots go through.

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

Sofia Boutella, who plays Jayla in Star Trek Beyond, shows us the most recent items on her phone - from texts, to music, to emojis, videos, instagram and more!

A 2006 Corvette Z06 has been converted to an all electric drivetrain and it just beat the land speed record for an street legal EV at 205.6 mph. You can buy one, but it's gonna cost you.

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!

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

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.

The DEA just made it easier for scientists to get their hands on more of the stickiest of the icky.

The raunchy animated feature from the minds of Seth Rogen and Jonah Hll unfortunately lives up its name, but there's enough gleeful filth and silliness to guarantee plenty of smoke-filled midnight movie sessions.

The Hopsy HomeTap is a miniature keg fridge that lets you drink brewery-fresh beer from participating local microbreweries.

Carlos “Charpu” Puertolas is regarded as one of the best freestyle drone pilots in the world. WIRED spent an afternoon with him in an abandoned oil refinery to get some tips on how to fly drones like a pro.

Meet the decorator and urchin crabs, crafty little critters that don’t just sit around waiting to get eaten. They deck themselves out with some serious outfits.