Comic-book legend Stan Lee sits down with Steve Aoki to talk about the future, science, the origins of Marvel, and why the world just might blow itself up one day.

“Cinderella" has had 13 movie adaptations since 2000. Angry Nerd is getting sick of the déjà vu. Why tarnish yet another animated classic by turning it into a live action film?

Instagram wants to make it easier for users to find what they want. Mike Krieger acknowledged that the discovery opportunities for finding new stuff on Instagram is still somewhat limited, but they're developing their search functionality (and explore tab) with Facebook to help users.

See how Industrial Light & Magic created the futuristic tech and magical world in Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland.

It’s taken nine years to get there, but on July 14, 2015 the New Horizons spacecraft will finally fly by its destination: Pluto. Find out how the historic mission to Pluto happened from the people who helped launch it.

You saw him choke Comic Con goers at this year's SDCC. Get to know cosplayer Dupree Jones as he shows us what it takes to transform into Darth Vader.

Scientists don't know exactly how the larva of the Reclinervellus nielseni wasp mind-controls spiders into building a special web to protect it but they do know that they eat their hosts and steal their webs.

Visual effects companies Framestore and MPC were tasked with creating the red planet in “The Martian.” From realistic landscape shots of Mars to simulated gravity differences, see how it all came together with a shorter-than-usual timeframe for post-production.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

One’s in the water and one’s in the air, but they share one thing in common: both are trying to reduce drag along their surfaces. Find out why scientists are studying humpback whales as they look to create more efficient wind turbines.

In order to cast a light on a global issue like climate change, the team behind the new film Racing Extinction turned a standard Tesla Model S into a “mobile projection vehicle.” See what mods they made, and follow along at www.facebook.com/racingextinction

The rise of ADHD diagnoses over the years has generated $13 billion in revenue for the companies that produce ADHD medication in the United States. Find out how the increase in attention deficit hyperactivity disorders is resulting in a big payday for big pharma.

Perhaps the most audacious product on display at CES 2016 is Ehang's concept autonomous single-occupancy drone, the 184. The $200,000 to $300,000 helicopter will offer rides up to 23 minutes at the push of a smartphone app button.

The Powerball jackpot is over a billion dollars but what are your chances?

Photographer and filmmaker Reuben Wu narrates a selection of his images documenting the amazing blue 'lava" that flows across the sulfurous landscape of Kawah Ijen Crater on Java, Indonesia.

For the first time, scientists have confirmed detection of gravitational waves. The finding not only validates Einstein's theory of relativity but also opens a new window on our knowledge of the universe.

Go behind the scenes of the virtual reality film “My Mother’s Wing” with United Nations senior advisor and filmmaker Gabo Arora and his crew.

A look behind the scenes of the final stunt of the final Mythbusters show. Thanks for all the cool science nerdery, guys!

We go behind the scenes to show you how visual effects company Double Negative created the dark energy Zero Matter in ABC's "Agent Carter."

Summon is fundamental to Tesla's goal of making driverless cars—and it won't stay a party trick forever.

Half-a-billion people store their files on Dropbox. But until recently, those were sitting in Amazon's cloud. Now Dropbox has cut out the middleman and built its own super servers, challenging the internet’s biggest cloud computing companies.

Jeff Nichols at WIRED by Design, 2014. In partnership with Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA. To learn more visit: live.wired.com

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.

Kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen brings his mesmerizing wind-powered creatures made of PVC-pipe to the San Francisco Exploratorium.

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.

In just one week Pokemon Go has almost the same number of daily active users as Twitter. So what's got millions of people running around with their phones trying to catch fantastical creatures? Well, it's pretty clever.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story behind the scenes sizzle reel shown at Celebration 2016.

You know those people you see on guided Segway tours? You know how you laugh at them and swear you’ll never do that? Well, Segway may have the answer to its ‘uncool’ problem with its new MiniPro.

It's not aliens. So everyone calm the heck down. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA caught sight of water plumes bursting out from Europa’s icy surface. If any Europeans are lurking beneath the moon's surface, they just got a whole lot easier to reach.

WIRED's Peter Rubin entered a thunderdome of wordplay warfare and came out with schticker shock. This is a field guide to the weapons he deployed.

An exoplanet expert tells us if Proxima Centauri B could be another Earth.

Jaimie Alexander hangs with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about herself.

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

The $129 Home smart speaker plays a vital role in Google’s futuristic vision of “a Google for everyone” powered by its omnipresent Assistant. It sounds like a big deal, but we decided to have some fun with the new assistant instead.

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

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.

Family occasions are stressful especially around the holidays.Google's Chade-Meng Tan shares some mindfulness tricks that'll keep you sane.

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.

A few of WIRED's favorite gear and gadgets for homebodies.

How do you sneakily film 10 people trapped on a remote island for 40 days? Very carefully—and with a lot of equipment.

Jack Stewart visits ICON, a controversial car restoration company that gives classic, luxury cars a complete modern overhaul.

It’s 80 feet high, 120 feet wide, that's large enough to hold a Boeing 737. Now trucking companies are using the wind tunnel to make their massive machines more efficient.

You don't have to tell the Baxter robot that it's doing something wrong. You Just have to think it.

It could very well be the best scene in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story— Darth Vader violently pursuing rebels as they try to escape with the Death Star plans. But, as Director Gareth Edwards reveals, the scene fans saw in theaters almost didn't happen.

The new Ford GT is the spiritual successor to the GT40 which dominated the 24 hours of Le Mans races in the 1960s.