WIRED gets a tour from veteran Foley artist John Roesch of the Skywalker's custom built soundstage. Roesch reveals some of the strangest audio props that were used in films like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit,' 'Back to the Future' and 'Braveheart’.

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.

These skydivers are no ordinary adrenalin junkies. In the National Championships of Canopy Piloting competitors fly swoop in inches above the ground at close to 100 miles per hour. It’s an extremely technical sport that punishes any tiny mistakes.

There are apps to help you convert measurements from tablespoons to cups, apps that help you balance out your noodle-to-sauce ratio, recipe apps that can offer suggestions of what you should cook tonight based on what's hiding in your fridge. And of course, if you like to cook but hate to shop, there are apps that will have uncooked ingredients delivered to you. All you have to do is bring the heat.

The silky anteater isn't high. It's just tired, because this proficient nocturnal hunter has no business being up during the day.

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.

We’ve all heard about the Gender Pay Gap, but how prevalent is it? Find out how women compare to men in workplace compensation and what we can do about the glass ceiling. Directed/Produced by Jared Neumark Animated by Yoriko Murakami and Kim Blanchette Shot by Mika Levin Written by Roya Rastegar Edited by Mike Russell

A California startup is testing a fleet of delivery drones in the hope of deploying them to deliver blood in rural Rwanda.

The hydra's got kind of a jellyfish thing going on, with tentacles it uses to snag prey. But this tiny freshwater creature regenerates itself over and over again.

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

WIRED takes ten seniors for a ride in a self-driving shuttle around UCSD's campus. How do they feel about this cutting edge technology? Directed and produced by Jared Neumark Shot by Benji Dell Sound by Kara Johnson Edited by Josh VanBurskirk Special thanks to Serving Seniors and Varden Labs

The crew behind the snowboarding series Higher TV went to some incredible lengths to get footage of Jeremy Jones plunging down snowy cliffs in the Himalayas, Wyoming and Alaska.

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

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, stars of upcoming film 'Neighbors 2,' answer the internet’s most searched questions in WIRED's Autocomplete interview.

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.

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.

The Antonov An-225 is the biggest plane in the world. It's such a sight that 20,000 people flocked to the Perth airport in Australia to see this thing land.

Google's new Ai-powered messaging app, Allo, lets you chat with Google while you chat with your friends. It's the first step toward making Google truly conversational.

Apple's new flagship San Francisco store is a redesign of the brand's shopping experience. Giant glass doors bring the outdoors inside to the new tree-lined Genius Grove where Creative Pros assist with music and photography apps and accessories.

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.

Kids swallow a lot of batteries. But now MIT researchers are developing swallowable origami to fish the nasty foreign objects out.

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

Werner Herzog's (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) new film examines the technologically connected world we have built.

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.

For gamers, World of Warcraft represents a massive universe in which they’ve spent many hours. But for many moviegoers, WoW’s Azeroth is a completely foreign place they know nothing about. So for his new movie, Warcraft, director Duncan Jones—a gamer himself—had to create a world that would bring in new fans and make long-time WoW players feel like they were coming home. In this interview with WIRED, he explains how he worked with Industrial Light & Magic to make that happen.

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.

Need an Uber? Need to make a restaurant reservation? Facebook wants you to do everything in its new messaging app.

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

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.

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects in Central Intelligence used to de-age The Rock and Kevin Hart into high school, teenaged versions of themselves. Weta digital puts the The Rock’s face onto Vine star Sione’s body for an amazing locker room shower dance scene you won’t want to miss.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

A workout with the social media-powered November Project San Francisco tribe who explain the bounce, dropping verbals, and the dreaded "We Missed You."

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.