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

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

It’s tough work for pairs of humans who install each of the 60,000 rivets that keep Boeing's 777 from falling apart in midair, so they’re getting some help from pairs of robots on the plane production line.

TV is way better than it used to be and you can say the same thing for the opening titles of your favorite series. They used to be afterthoughts, but now they’re artistic statements of their own.

Ken Jeong uses the power of Twitter to answer some common medical questions.

King Kong films hold a special distinction in the annals of cinema. Each new entry in the series often sets a new high-water mark for movie making special effects. Mike Seymour breaks down some the techniques used in 'Kong: Skull Island,' one of the most visually impressive films to date.

Meet the stentor, a gigantic single-celled organism that can regenerate and ink like a squid.

The latest, longest variant of the tech-stuffed, efficiency-focused Dreamliner took off from Boeing’s new factory in Charleston, South Carolina and this is just the beginning of testing hell for the new 787-10.

Bertha, the largest boring machine in North America, has reached the light at the end of the tunnel, after getting stuck, and sitting motionless underneath the city for two years.

Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes some of the most famous "constructed languages" in movie and television history. Which real-life languages inspired "conlangs" like Klingon and Dothraki?

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.

USC houses a collection of twisted, burnt, jagged aircraft wrecks in a warehouse outside Los Angeles and it's where they train students to act as detectives in helicopter and plane crashes.

Mike Seymour breaks down the visual effects from the film 'Ghost in the Shell' starring Scarlett Johansson.

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.

The Lilium personal jet is the latest entry in a growing field of what are essentially flying cars. The electric vehicle could soon be ferrying passengers using distributed propulsion.

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.

Artist Trevor Paglen is best known for images of the security state – drones, spy satellites and rendition planes – For a new work commissioned by the Cantor Arts Center he's collaborated with Kronos Quartet and Obscura Digital to look under the hood of artificial intelligence and machine vision.

Artificial intelligence and advanced automation are everywhere including our farm fields and kitchens. How will robots change the way we grow, harvest and cook our food?

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.

Robots can learn to do tasks just fine. Getting different kinds of robots to share knowledge, though, is another challenge entirely.

In West Virginia, the Nature Conservancy is bringing back forests with the help of a very special fungus.

The new Ford GT is the spiritual successor to the GT40 which dominated the 24 hours of Le Mans races in the 1960s.

We’re behind-the-scenes at Los Angeles’ airport, which is in the middle of five days of upheaval as 21 airlines swap terminals in the dead of night.

Phishing scams are getting more and more sophisticated, to the point where they’re fooling even security experts. Here's how to avoid them.

Brent Rose takes Google Assistant, Amazon Echo, Microsoft Cortana and Apple's Siri out for the ultimate test drive; which AI has the best sense of humor? How will a human audience respond to a stand-up set written entirely by smart gadgets?

Utility bikes really have the potential to be the future of transport in American cities. Here's why.

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.

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.

An internet troll's favorite way to argue? Ad hominem, of course! This is your guide to spotting bad arguments on the internet and how to fight them.

At Apple's annual WWDC conference CEO Tim Cook and others unveiled its most powerful Mac yet, a long-awaited Siri speaker, and tons of new software upgrades across all of the Apple platforms.

Five female engineers discuss the sexism of the tech industry and why greater diversity and inclusion makes better products for everyone.

Ask Norman Foster what, if anything, he’d like to change about Apple’s new headquarters, and he’ll need a moment to think. The famed architect, whose firm spent the last eight years perfecting plans for Apple’s massive campus, is mostly pleased with the results. But there is one thing he'd change.

At the WIRED Business Conference, Jennifer Doudna, Co-Inventor of CRISPR-Cas9, shared some of the ways the gene editing tool is already changing agriculture.

Nick Offerman uses the power of Twitter to answer some common woodworking questions. Nick's book Good Clean Fun and film The Hero are both out now.

Researchers have loaded a robot with AI that lets it scan an object and determine how best to grab it.

Sean Spencer is a pretty successful entrepreneur in LA's startup community but he also struggles with depression. He and many others use ketamine to help with their lows.

Instead of just yelling at you, Amazon's Alexa now can show you things with a new flashy screen. Here's WIRED's review of the Amazon Echo Show.

A guide to busting through confirmation bias, the cognitive fallacy that's destroying our discourse.

The iPhone is 10 years old! Take a look back at how the smartphone grew from gadget to essential.

Cadillac's new self-driving car isn't just watching the road, it's watching the driver. The system it calls "super cruise" is designed to crack the so-called "hand-off" problem.

Jeff Lewis, a former Wall Street guy, is the founder of the American Flag Football League. It’s a new, teched-out version of the game and he believes it's the future of football.

Uber's crises have come so fast that they've piled on top of one another. We've laid out some of the companies most infamous milestones.

Though the planet has only warmed by one-degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, climate change's effect on earth has been anything but subtle. Here are some of the most astonishing developments over the past few years.

Before they figured out how to shoot film in color, filmmakers were painting their footage, frame-by-frame. Fast forward a century and the HDR technology available to colorists means we are to see more detail than ever on our screens.

James Vlahos' father was dying, so he set out to save his dad's memories and code them into a 'Dadbot' that lives on his phone.

'Valerian' star Dane DeHaan shows us the last thing he did with his phone. Luc Besson’s epic sci-fi 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets' comes out in theaters July 21st.

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

Politician and activist Al Gore answers the Internet's most searched questions about climate change.

The Perlan II, a specially designed glider meant to climb to higher than any plane has ever flown, is attempting to reach altitudes of 90,000 feet.

How did Dawn orbit two protoplanets? The same way Darth Vadar annihilated the rebel fleet. Sort of.