The Window - Goodyear Blimp Part 2: How Many Pilots Does it Take to Fly the New Goodyear Airship?
Find out how the tech, aviation, and design of Goodyear's new airship stack up to its predecessors.
Find out how the tech, aviation, and design of Goodyear's new airship stack up to its predecessors.
DJI’s latest batch of quadcopters lets users get sky-high while capturing hi-definition photography and video. Take a look under the hood of DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision+ and Inspire 1 to see how the technology and advanced features are allowing for a bird’s eye view that was previously reserved for, well, birds.
If Netflix’s new Daredevil series is anything like Ben Affleck’s Daredevil film, we’re all in trouble. Angry Nerd explains what the latest incarnation needs to get right to make sure the man without fear doesn’t turn into a total flop.
Fly over Pluto's beautiful mountains and the plains of its "heart" in this amazing NASA animation built with some of the first close-up images from the New Horizons probe.
For years we've been promised flying cars and for years we've been disappointed. The ICON A5, with its folding wings, may be the closest thing yet, and it's a boat, too! WIRED writer Tim Moynihan goes for a ride in the A5 over New York City.
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 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.
Fair warning. This video is about the botfly's horrific larvae, which grow and feed in human flesh. Don't say we didn't warn you.
Pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg show WIRED around the enormous solar-panel covered wings of the Solar Impulse 2 plane and inside its cramped cockpit.
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.
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.
Without a pilot’s license, or frankly, any experience, WIRED's Jack Stewart flew a plane using just his thoughts. Thanks to new technology developed by Honeywell Aerospace, a King Air C90 can be controlled, in simple terms, by the human brain.
Two Lockheed Martin helicopters, with help from a pair of drones, join forces to fight fires and save lives.
The Transpose concept uses modular architecture to keep life in the sky fresh and comfortable.
The morpho butterfly appears blue but it isn't actually. It looks blue not because of pigment but because of some very fancy scales on its wings.
Suit up with a NASA high altitude ER-2 pilot as he prepares for a scientific research mission flying as high as 70,000 feet in the agency's modified U-2 spy plane.
To get the best space observations possible, NASA scientists fly around the world in a highly modified 747 carrying a giant telescope.
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.
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.
The personal air transport vehicle has achieved the milestone of "first flight", as the race to develop flying cars continues.
Tom Cruise is famous for doing his own stunts, and he's back in Mission: Impossible - Fallout with what might just be the most dangerous one yet--spinning a helicopter around while diving down over a waterfall. Cruise learned to fly at Airbus's base in Texas -- so WIRED's Jack Stewart went to find out what it takes.
Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Kittyhawk and president of Udacity, and Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator and co-chair of Open AI, spoke with WIRED’s Former Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson as part of WIRED25, WIRED’s 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.
Bar-headed geese are the SR-71's of the avian world, soaring to 26,000 feet. To learn how their bodies function so well at altitude researchers raised a gaggle of geese, introduced them to a wind tunnel, strapped tiny masks to their beaks and sensor packs on their backs.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a gliding lizard! A first-of-its-kind study by Pranav Khandelwal and Tyson Hedrick went deep into the Indian jungle to capture and analyze the biomechanics behind the death-defying glides of Draco dussumieri.
Written as a son's letter to his mother who cannot read, this novel is raw and achingly beautiful. Vuong's writing is both visceral and sublime with lines that will render you awestruck. - Andy
This week, we chat about why people are nice to each other—does it feel good or are we just avoiding feeling bad—approaches to keeping arsenic out of the food supply, and using artificial intelligence to figure out what a chemical smells like to a human nose with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Stephen Brusatte joins Alexa Billow to discuss why dinosaurs evolved wings and feathers before they ever flew. And in the latest installment of our monthly books segment, Jen Golbeck talks with Bill Schutt, author of Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Todd Marshall; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
This week we have stories on the twisty tree of human ancestry, why mice shed weight when they can’t smell, and the damaging effects of even a small amount of oil on a bird’s feathers—with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to News Editor Tim Appenzeller about a special section on how artificial intelligence is changing the way we do science. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: © 2012 CERN, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ALICE COLLABORATION; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Chemists have long known how to convert carbon dioxide into fuels—but up until now, such processes have been too expensive for commercial use. Staff Writer Robert Service talks with host Sarah Crespi about using new filters and catalysts to close the gap between air-derived and fossil-derived gasoline. Also this week, host Sarah Crespi talks with Nitish Padmanaban of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, about replacing bifocals with “autofocals.” These auto-focusing glasses track your eye position and measure the distance to the visual target before adjusting the thickness of their liquid lenses. The prototype glasses have an onboard camera and batteries that make them particularly bulky; however, they still outperformed progressive lenses in tests of focus speed and acuity. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast