The frogfish is a vicious hunter that swallows its victims whole, but it doesn’t really bite its prey. By rapidly expanding its mouth to 10 times its normal volume, the predator creates a vacuum that sucks victims in.

When Google's AI beat the world's Go champion 4-1, it stirred a certain sadness in many people. But the reality is the technologies at the heart of AlphaGo are the future. So it's a time to be excited not scared.

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.

Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, but he's also a jazz fanatic whose musical obsession has helped him better understand the world of cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics.

For a bird called the kingfisher, stealth, dive-bombing and impalement is a way of life.

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

The binturong has a prehensile tail, crazy feet, and excretes a scent that smells like popcorn. Just call it Orville Smellenbacher.

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

In the 1970's a group of California hippies built a new technology that changed the world. Computers? Nope. They were building the earliest commercial mountain bikes.

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.

It’s called a remora, and you’ve probably seen it before. It attaches to fish and marine mammals all the time. But get this: It doesn’t attach with its mouth. It’s got a suction cup it wears as a hat.

Tech bubble? What tech bubble. The future looks bright, especially when you sit down to talk with these four people.

Apple's iOS 10 has some cool new features. WIRED's David Pierce runs down the mobile software's updates and overhauls.

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

This video of Star Wars characters C-3PO and R2-D2 recorded through Magic Leap's technology isn't just cool—it also shows the nearly unlimited potential of a new partnership between Lucasfilm and the mixed-reality company.

For a tiny arthropod called a globular springtail, life is about being generally spherical and generally pissed-looking.

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Mozzeria is a 100 percent deaf owned and operated pizzeria in a crowded San Francisco restaurant scene. So to stay afloat, it relies on a remarkable technology.

The tree kangaroo may have shrunken hind legs, but hey, at least it can walk backwards unlike regular roos. Oh, also: It can plummet out of trees and not suffer the consequences.

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.

What is creativity to you? In the world of business it's all about bravery and collaboration.

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

In South America, the peanut bug ambles around with a goofy-ass head. And that’s not its only clever defense against the bullies of the rainforest.

Dana Carvey, star of the upcoming film 'The Secret Life of Pets,' answers the internet's most searched questions about himself.

A fun look at all the things that are possible when wielding the powerful Iron Man glove. Iron Man glove designed and built by Patrick Priebe - http://www.laser-gadgets.com/

Now that he’s made a ‘Ghostbusters’ movie, director Paul Feig should be an expert in spirits. So WIRED asked him about a series of spooks, both real and fake, to see if he could tell us which were based on actual ghost stories and which we totally made up.

Watch Boeing maneuver this All Nippon Airways 787-9 Dreamliner through the skies as it practices for the 2016 Farnborough Airshow.

Want to know how crickets are farmed and turned into powder? Of course you do. You'll be eating the stuff soon enough.

Carly Chaikin, star of MR. ROBOT, answers the internet’s most searched questions about herself.

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

Find out how NASA’s Juno Mission will help unlock the mysteries of our planet and our solar system.

The four things you need to know about lab grown meat!

Social Media and Live are going to be huge during the olympics this year. Watch as Sam Olstein leads a marketing team at GE pioneering new experiences at the 2016 Olympics across all forms of social media.

May I introduce you to the rotifer, a magical microscopic critter that uses a buzz saw to suck its victims into its face.

A team within Motorola has been working on a crazy plan: to let users decide how their smartphone should look, and how it should work. The result is called the Moto Z, and it’s about to hit stores.

Say hello to the secretary bird. It’s a bird of prey, but it ain’t doing no swooping. Instead, it kicks the everloving crap out of its victims.

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

Cara Delevingne, star of Suicide Squad and Luc Besson’s much anticipated Valerian, hangs with WIRED to answer the Internet’s most searched questions about herself.

Meet the bizarre sea pig, a kind of sea cucumber that walks along the sea floor on little squishy feet. Oh, and it shoves dead things into its mouth with tentacles.

The agouti ain’t no sewer rat: It’s actually a pivotal part of the rainforest ecosystem. Like a weird-looking squirrel, really.

We hop behind the wheel of the resurrected Revero—formerly known as the Fisker Karma—to see if the electric car can make its second chance at life a success.

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 river dolphin is good at two things: having a giant head and being able to turn that head. That last bit is indeed a skill. We promise.

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.

When you're trying to meet a Fitbit threshold, but you just can't cut the mustard, we've got several cheats that will bring your count up to 10,000 steps with minimal effort.

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

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

To promote the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards, a pair of helicopters cruised over the Hudson. One towed a 250-foot-wide banner, and a second flew behind it at an angle, beaming video onto the banner from a few hundred feet away.

A surprising number of insects look like sticks and leaves. But nobody created them that way—they’re the product of the wonderful processes of natural selection.