President and WIRED guest editor Barack Obama discusses the future of artificial intelligence with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito.

Barack Obama won't be president for much longer. But while he still is, he's seeking to cement his legacy as a booster of science and technology.

In this episode of Tech Effects, we explore the impact of music on the brain and body. From listening to music to performing it, WIRED's Peter Rubin looks at how music can change our moods, why we get the chills, and how it can actually change pathways in our brains.

Get to know the biggest, most chillest rodent on Earth (all 175 pounds of it).

Building something as large as a 737 wing takes an even bigger machine. Boeing’s Panel Assembly Line (PAL) is the 60 ton, 20 feet tall, friendly robot that always lends a rather large hand.

UCLA Robotics lab shows off their newest and most innovative projects, including robots who search for mines and cannot fall down.

Jack Reacher, Never Go Back is worth checking out if you like hammy, uncomplicated action films.

A truck carrying 50,000 beers spent two hours driving itself down a Colorado highway.

Forget self-driving cars, Uber has a new one for you... flying cars. The company calls it Uber Elevate and within a decade it’ll be a global network of on demand urban electric aircraft that take off and land vertically.

Parking sucks. Looking for a space, driving round and round, trying not to hit a pillar. Fear not, the robots have it covered.

Wall-E, Terminator, Eva. Which beloved moves robots are realistic to create and which are a far stretch? Our expert breaks it down.

You know bats---the flighty mammals that find their way around with sonar and eat bugs. But bats have a little secret I'd like to share with you: They can be astonishingly fast.

*UPDATE* We have looked into the focus issues and have altered our choice accordingly. Please read the updated review at WIRED.com for the full explanation: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/gopro-karma-vs-dji-mavic-pro/ GoPro has entered the drone game, delivering a sleek, foldable device that can fit inside a backpack. Brent Rose compares GoPro's offering with the Mavic Pro; DJI's impressive new foldable drone.

Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have built a robot that can smoke cigarettes just like a human to better understand lung diseases. You're welcome, smoking lab rats.

Subway commuters traveling between San Francisco and Oakland got tired of looking each other in eye. So, the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency redesigned their train cars to give commuters more space.

Kate Rubins is a biologist-turned-astronaut who's studied infectious disease in a biosafety level 4 facility and on the ground in Congo. That wasn't enough for her, so she went to space to sequence some DNA.

The mudskipper is a fish marvelously adapted to terrestrial life. From it's powerful fin-feet to its googly eyes perched on top of its head, it's made for boogying across terra firma.

The 45th President of the United States has a big task ahead. Something is happening to the middle class and it's not good.

The Polaroid SX-70 was the go-to camera for instant photography, and the Canon Rebel T5 is currently one of the most popular DSLRs on the market. What's changed since then?

Daydream View, the first mobile headset of Google's new virtual-reality platform, is rock-solid VR at low cost.

A WIRED exclusive look at how Facebook will beam the internet with Aquila, a stratospheric solar-powered drone equipped with millimeter wave communications technology.

Two sonic branding experts explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable sounds.

It sounds weird and a little creepy but science proves that massaging your kale removes the bitter taste the leaf can have. Makes sense, because who isn't a little less bitter after a good massage?

Poop rules everything around the dung beetle, including its sex life.

The new Macbook Pro is great, but it isn't worth rushing to the Apple store to drop $1,800 if you don't need a new computer this minute. Here's why.

Reggie Watts answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself. REGGIE WATTS: SPATIAL premieres on Netflix Dec 6

Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes the accents of some of Hollywood's biggest names. How accurate were they really?

America has a new president who is, how should we say, unpredictable. There’s no telling how the NSA and the surveillance state will evolve in the next four years. So, if you’re worried about keeping your private communications private, here’s what to do.

The coati is kind of a raccoon but also maybe a monkey with the nose of a pig. In other words, a critter that can’t seem to figure out what it wants to be.

It's bound to happen to you— your flight is cancelled, delayed or the airline bumps you. That's why it's important to know your rights when your travel plans go astray.

Meet the RR10 Bomber from Axial. The $400 RC car is a 1/10th-scale recreation of a real 4x4 and it was built for crawling across the gnarliest trails.

In August the DEA announced plans to ban Kratom, a herbal substance used to treat pain, anxiety and in some cases opioid addiction. A group of tenacious users got the agency to back down and extend public comment until December 1st. Now a tough decision lies before the DEA.

A team of scientists at Harvard created an artificial stingray out of rat parts, which can be remote-controlled around a tank using light beams as part of the team's ongoing research on how to make artificial organs.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses teamwork every day to accomplish incredible scientific feats.

Office Christmas Party stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman hang with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

The Port of Los Angeles is one of the busiest ports in the country, and only gets busier during the holidays. With more global shipping now that ever, new technologies are emerging that can mend choke points in the process.

The Harry Potter prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, finds Eddie Redmayne performing a mating ritual in front of a massive computer-generated beast. Using a combination of puppets and CGI, a slew of effects houses were able to craft convincing monsters to populate J.K. Rowling's imaginative world.

Office Christmas Party stars Kate McKinnon and Vanessa Bayer hang with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

In 1962 astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. The feat paved the way to US dominance in the space race and the mission to the moon. Glenn, ever a champion of human exploration, died December 8, 2016.

You wish you liked eggnog more than you do, right? Well, with this recipe and a few science tricks, you'll make eggnog that is not only delicious but brilliantly boozy too.

Produced for Atlassian by the WIRED Brand Lab. The process of team work is all around us. From construction, to music, to food, the greatest achievements are born out of teams. On its surface, collaboration is a seemingly simple process, but there is much more underneath. WIRED teams up with the experts and uses science to showcase the mechanics behind working as a team.

Meet the leaf-tailed gecko, which deploys some of the most astounding camouflage in the animal kingdom.

Visual Effects house Prologue has worked on some of the biggest movie franchises around. The different teams at Prologue deftly work together to bring some of their most familiar assets over to the virtual space.

The Transpose concept uses modular architecture to keep life in the sky fresh and comfortable.

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" stars Felicity Jones, Donnie Yen, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendelsohn and Alan Tudyk answer the internet's most searched questions about themselves.

Google is getting serious about self-driving cars. So serious that it put a legally blind man in one that drove him around safely on his own. The successful trip means that the tech giant can now launch its own self-driving car company, which it's calling Waymo.

There's a lot of bad logic out there. WIRED's Jason Tanz explains how to spot and fight the dumbest arguments online.

Bug-out bags/survival kits are a controversial topic. Everybody has a different philosophy about what makes a good one. This is Brent's. While bigger and heavier than a lot of the bags you'll see online, you can keep it in the closet by your front door or the trunk of your car, and you'll be prepared for an emergency that could last many days. Brent's kit doubles as a slick backpacking setup, so you'll get to know your gear extremely well, and you get to have fun with it, too.

"Passengers" stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" star Alan Tudyk plays K-2SO, an Imperial droid who was reprogrammed and finds himself with the rebellion. Alan explains what it was like controlling K-2SO, and how they went about making the best movie they could.