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.

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!

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

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.

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

WIRED asked Werner Herzog, whose new film 'Lo and Behold' examines the information age of the Internet, to weigh in on tech manners.

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

GoPro's Hero4 Black costs $500, and the Yi 4K costs $250, which one is better? Not the expensive one.

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!

Data Attack reveals the history of DC and Marvel films and how they’ve created Hollywood’s biggest franchises. Animation by Eric Power

Your first thought upon seeing Swindon's 'magic roundabout' might be: man, the Brits have really lost the plot lately. But this thing—which is actually seven roundabouts in one—has been working for 60 years.

Scientists in California are breeding and releasing mosquitos into Zika hotspots. While it may seem like they're making matters worse, they are actually releasing a kind of biological trojan horse.

In this episode, watch as we tear down Nokia's 3310 and the iPhone 6s. We pull them apart, compare them, and give interesting tech, cultural details and statistics.

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

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.

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.

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.

Exploring everything from the radars and camera to the Mario Kart easter egg, our roadtrip shows Tesla’s autopilot works well—but it's no self-driving wunderkind.

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 first moments of the new animated film Kubo are breathtaking. WIRED spoke to LAIKA animation studio about how they made it all possible.

Human eyes haven’t seen the USS Independence, which fought ferocious battles in the Pacific Theater, for 65 years. But now, thanks to the wonders of remotely operated vehicles, it’s coming into view off the coast of San Francisco.

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

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.

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.

Dave Hogye spent four and a half years turning a rusted out 1959 Triumph into a beautiful race car. He then risked all that hard work, took it to the track and pushed it full throttle.

We’re willing to bet your wearable doesn’t come with the power of the Force? Sphero’s launching a special edition of the BB-8 toy that'll allow you to control the little droid with hand gestures.

Charpu is one of the best drone pilot's in the world. WIRED spent an afternoon with him capturing some of his craziest drone stunts.

Rhino beetles love to fight and to hump. They use huge scoops on their heads to joust, launching each other off branches to win the right to mate.

The Juno spacecraft has snapped the first photo ever of Jupiter’s north pole, revealing some intriguing surprises.

The iPhone 7 is here. It has a great new camera, a bunch of new color options, but let's not talk about the headphone jack.

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.

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.

'Snowden' star Zachary Quinto goes in-depth on the possibility of a hacked presidential election.

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.

Nike's Tinker Hatfield and Tiffany Beers explain the new power-lacing HyperAdapt 1.0 and demonstrate how to charge the sneakers, and tighten and loosen the laces with the touch of a button.

Nike shoe guru Tinker Hatfield draws WIRED's October cover featuring his design inspirations for the power-lacing HyperAdapt 1.0 shoe.

John McAfee’s security detail talks about their experiences with him in this clip from 'Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee'.

One push of a button and 140,000 Tesla owners get a new user interface, improved Autopilot, and some clever new abilities. WIRED takes Tesla's new system for a spin.

Virtual Reality is the next frontier in entertainment, but it’s so new that the rules are still being written. No one knows the best way to develop, advertise, or create yet – and that’s what makes it so exciting.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has come up with an ingenious solution to take better photographs of ultra-bright stars; a baseball diamond-sized folding shade that blocks out a star's powerful rays.

Ever wanted to be inside an episode of South Park? At the Paley Center in Los Angeles, the South Park 20 Experience lets you do just that. Taking the twenty most iconic moments of the television series, the South Park 20 Experience gives people the opportunity to take pictures and become part of South Park's best episodes.

Rumor has it that oysters were the fuel behind Casanova’s fire, but are these slimy mollusks actually aphrodisiacs? WIRED cracks into the science behind the old wives’ tale.

It may look like a monkey, with its prehensile tail and predilection for chewing with its mouth open—but don't be fooled.

By this point, self driving cars are a common sight in Silicon Valley and Google’s fleet of nearly 60 autonomous cars hit a milestone: They have now clocked more than two million miles of driving on public streets.

GoPro's new 4K cameras, the Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session, aim to deliver the best GoPro experience yet. Brent Rose takes them through their paces, and compares the Hero5 to Garmin's impressive Virb Ultra 30.

Chameleons are deceptively great hunters, with a tongue that can snipe prey in a split-second.

The leafy and weedy seadragons might not breathe fire, but they’re every bit as majestic as real dragons.

Like WIRED, our 44th president is a relentless optimist. President Barack Obama focuses on the future and the next hurdles that humanity will need to overcome to move forward.