Cities used to grow (more or less) by accident. Today cities develop more intentionally. From Shanghai to Nairobi, designers, architects, and planners are using better materials, smart science, and big data to make cities better—and even a little magical.

Mantis shrimp have a pair of hammer appendages that pack a powerful punch. They use them to smash prey open and fight each other for territory. Researchers at Duke University set up a mantis shrimp fight club to study their sparring behavior.

You’ll now be able to see immersive videos in your Facebook feed. As part of the rollout, you can speed across the Jakku desert of the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens in a 360 video created by Disney exclusively for Facebook.

Eli Roth’s new horror film The Green Inferno delves into the world of cannibalism as only Roth can. Ahead of the new movie, the director breaks down his rules for engaging in cannibalism and shares the type of person he’d want to eat.

Following Cabin Fever and Hostel, The Green Inferno is the latest film in Eli Roth’s travel trilogy. The director explains what inspired his new cannibalistic horror movie, and how he achieved a realistic look and feel while shooting on set in the Amazon.

Anki Overdrive combines the nostaligic toy race car fun of Hot Wheels with the smartphone control and artificial intelligence of Sphero. It's fun, really fun, but not without a few wrong turns.

The Wove Band by Polyera is the first wearable with a flexible touchscreen display. The devices won't be publicly available until 2016, but Polyera CEO Phil Inagaki gave us a behind the scenes look at some prototypes, and talked with us about his design philosophy.

Facebook has a new feature for some users that lets them turn their profile picture into a GIF-like video. WIRED's Dellea Chew demonstrates how she made a clip of her dog Dude into her Facebook looping video.

Caterpillars are sort of the Cheetos of the animal world. They're just waiting to become someone's snack. Some species have developed defense mechanisms. This caterpillar, found in Peru, has weird appendages it throws in the air when it senses dangerous sounds.

Skim the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, in this stunning animation made up of images beamed back from NASA's space probe New Horizons.

“The Martian” director Ridley Scott explains how NASA’s latest discovery on Mars would have affected the film’s plot and why he has zero interest in traveling to the far-off planet himself.

Through motion tracking, data driven exercise, and eventually DNA analysis, SI and WIRED explore how scientific advances in training may help create the perfect NFL athlete.

The 360fly is a water-water-resistent virtual reality action sports camera that works with your phone and Google Cardboard. We tested the $400 camera at the California Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium.

The axolotl is not only weirdly cute for an amphibian but it can also regenerate its own limbs. Scientists are studying how the salamanders regrow legs and how humans might someday do the same.

There have been a lot of movies made recently about the Apple founder. This is the one you should see.

But they do have fleas! Researchers at Boise State University are trying to figure out how burrowing owls manage to host the plague-carrying fleas but don't get infected.

Pause, a new $1.99 app isn't a typical game. There's no score and no competition. It's designed to help you zone out and relax by slowly chasing a beautiful blob of dots across your screen.

Apple's new iMacs looks a lot like its past iMacs but with better screens and best of all, a Force Touch trackpad and a slimmer wireless keyboard.

No longer just for aerial photography and stunt aerobatics, hobbyists have found a new use for drones: making them fight.

Tiny Bop makes beautiful apps like Everything Machine which uses a smartphone's camera, gyroscope, light, speakers and microphone to teach coding through games.

“Steve Jobs” is more than just a biopic. Director Danny Boyle explains the unique approach he took by shooting the movie in three different film formats to capture the life and achievements of the Apple co-founder.

The laptop-tablet hybrid is clearly the future of Windows mobility, so it makes sense that Microsoft is trying to corner the market.

WIRED's David Pierce reviews the Surface Book, Microsoft's kick-ass laptop that the company figured out how to turn into a convertible hybrid PC.

We asked a group of experts what Silicon Valley can do about online harassment.

Put the comb jelly in the spotlight and watch it groove. The sea creatures turn into pulsating rainbows of movement under the right lighting, no disco ball needed.

"Steve Jobs" director Danny Boyle discusses how the Apple co-founder elevated the role of tech CEO to modern day storyteller. Boyle also explains his personal heroes in the technology world, from the founders of Wikipedia to Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Take a look inside the factory in Ada, Ohio where every single NFL game ball is made by hand.

A physics professor re-imagines the size and shape of an NFL football in an effort to optimize it for flight. It turns out a couple of small changes can add a whole lot of distance, but how would that change the way the game is played?

Logan Miller and Joey Morgan from "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" show you how to hack together an arsenal of weapons to fend off the walking dead.

Bats are awesome. They're the only mammals that truly fly, they have echolocation and, scientists have recently discovered, tiny hairs that helps them fly by feel.

Actor B.J. Novak has a new app for making lists of anything you want. But the real fun is in browsing the lists of celebrities like Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, and Snoop Dogg.

See the chicken walker get demolished in slow-motion as we bring the Ewok log smash to life, using thousands of Lego pieces.

It took 1,058 pieces of Lego and three hours of build time to create a replica of an Imperial AT-ST. Go behind the scenes to see how it all came together.

Most consider them pesky critters, but Dr. Alper Bozkurt of North Carolina State University thinks that cockroaches have the potential to save human lives. By hacking their antennae and transforming them into remote-controlled creatures, he believes we can use the cyber roaches as a mobile search and rescue team to help find survivors during natural disasters.

Brazilian scientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is leading the frontier on mind-controlled exoskeletons that can translate thoughts into physical movement. Go inside his lab and find out how he’s helping paraplegics control aid-enabling devices just by thinking.

Imagine robotic fingers that can feel vibrations, textures, and temperatures. For those with prosthetic hands, it’s no longer a dream, it’s reality. Find out how one company is disrupting the prosthetic hand field by mimicking the sensation a hand feels with synthetic fingernails and fingerprints.

OpenBCI is an open-source hardware that allows a D.I.Y. community of artists, designers, and engineers to innovate, while serving as a tool for research and innovation. From using brain activity to control a toy spider to engaging a group in collective mind control, the open-source brain computer interface aims to change the way people interact with machines.

Ekso Bionics has a simple premise: create robotics that help people. And the company is doing just that with its wearable exoskeleton. Using a combination of weight-activated sensors and battery-powered motors, the bionic suit is helping wheelchair-bound users learn how to walk again.

MIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr explains how he looks to nature when developing new bionic appendages. The amputee and avid rock climber discusses how his biomechatronics division is pioneering the technologies that aim to augment human physical capabilities.

“We beat the hell out of each other for weeks.” James Bond stars, Dave Bautista and 007 himself, Daniel Craig, explain how they ended up with a fractured nose and an emergency knee surgery by not holding back during the fight sequences in the new “Spectre” film.

A few days after I started wearing the Time Round, Pebble's ultra-thin new smartwatch, I shut off notifications. This was partly practical---I get too many notifications, and the iPhone offers no filtering control over them---but also a thought experiment. Right now most people see a smartwatch as nothing more than a notification machine, a slightly faster way to see what that buzz in my pocket was all about. What if we took that away? What else could it be?

In Star Wars Episode III the TIE starfighter suffered a devastating blow from asteroid impact. Watch a slo-mo Lego replica of the crushing scene.

It took two crashes and 1,559 Lego pieces to re-create the X-Wing fighter facing off against the Death Star. See how we pulled it off.

Sea lions are incredible and unusual swimmers. One day engineers could use the sea lion’s secrets to create super-maneuverable, super-stealthy vehicles that’ll better navigate dangers like underwater minefields.

Sure, they’re pesky critters but termites can teach architects a thing or two when it comes building design. When creating giant mounds the insects build channels within them to help with ventilation. See how architects are attempting to replicate that process to create better heating and air conditioning systems in giant skyscrapers.

The Drone Racing League is gearing up for a massive 2016 debut. Tim Moynihan explores the technology and design behind the racing drones.

Google Cardboard and a smartphone are all you need to experience the immersive world of virtual reality. WIRED's Molly McHugh explores apps for news, gaming, and thrills.

In the future, NFL teams won't play in sterile concrete bowls. Instead, they will play in multi-use spaces near the urban core, redefining our idea of what a stadium is.

Dan Meis explains the challenges of building an iconic building in the back yard of Rome's Colosseum, and how the enduring life of the classic arena should provide a lesson for the future of stadium design.

It was already partially assembled, but it still took more than three hours to put together this Star Wars Lego Death Star. See how it all came together.