Get to know the dedicated cast and crew that are bringing Star Trek Continues to life. Plus, find out which cast member spent time on set of the original series when his dad starred as Scotty.

They each won $100,000 to change the world. Find out how the 2014 Thiel Fellows are planning to do it—all in under 60 seconds.

From what shots are the most efficient to how defenders alter offense in the post to placing a value on every action on the court, they’re helping bring hoops into the big data era. See here how they do it.

Summer Glau has to attend her ex-boyfriend’s art gallery opening and who better to accompany her than a ten-foot tall robot? Jeff agrees to go and is tasked with one job, but things go haywire when he meets the ex—David Arquette.

The tree weta, which looks like a cricket, is not cricket sized, it is the heaviest confirmed insect on earth. Males throw that weight around fighting for females, mostly by trying to dismember each other with their giant pincers.

Costume and prop-maker Shawn Thorsson shows us how he creates impressive life-size replicas of movie and comic-book characters.

We caught up with fans who lined up for tickets nearly two weeks before the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. From keeping your job to keeping your marriage, the cosplay-dressing superfans break down the rules to waiting in line.

As a physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marina Brozovic studies and measures near-earth asteroids—you know, the ones that can potentially cause catastrophic damage. Watch as Brozovic explains how her team tracks the orbit of these large masses and how NASA would prepare if one were to come barreling towards earth.

The $35,000 TESLA Model 3 is finally here. It is sleek, quick, more affordable and it's the most important car that Tesla has built.

Trap-jaw spiders may be tiny but their unusual jaws pack a serious and lightning fast punch. Researchers using high-speed cameras recently discovered how speedy and lethal the spiders' bite can be.

May I introduce you to the rotifer, a magical microscopic critter that uses a buzz saw to suck its victims into its face.

The Dyson 360 Eye has a camera on top that can survey your home’s layout, helping it vacuum every available inch.

The agouti ain’t no sewer rat: It’s actually a pivotal part of the rainforest ecosystem. Like a weird-looking squirrel, really.

A decade ago the tiny island fox was on the brink of extinction. Now, thanks to a radical reordering of its California island ecosystem, the fox is coming off the Endangered Species List.

A single car sold for 18 million dollars at one of the fanciest auto shows in the United States. Here are the five most notable vintage cars on auction at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

A surprising number of insects look like sticks and leaves. But nobody created them that way—they’re the product of the wonderful processes of natural selection.

Carlos “Charpu” Puertolas isn't interested in competitive drone racing, he prefers to fly freestyle in dangerous, abandoned buildings. His tricks and aerial showmanship has earned him notoriety in the drone community.

Artist Tom Sachs discusses his latest space program--Mission to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon. His expansive sculpture exhibition will fill Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco from the 16th of September until the 15th of January 2017.

Nike's Tinker Hatfield and Tiffany Beers explain the new power-lacing HyperAdapt 1.0 and demonstrate how to charge the sneakers, and tighten and loosen the laces with the touch of a button.

Get to know the crown of thorns starfish, which grows to two feet wide and wields toxic spines that will definitely ruin your day.

It may look like a monkey, with its prehensile tail and predilection for chewing with its mouth open—but don't be fooled.

Google enters the phone fray with the Pixel, a premium Android smartphone with all the features of an iPhone plus Google Assistant and a headphone jack.

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.

The harlequin shrimp is all dressed up in a festive clown suit…a clown suit of murder.

What's 10 feet long, 440 pounds, and armored like a tank? The arapaima, perhaps the most peculiar fish in the Amazon.

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.

The GOES-16 atmospheric satellite is a super-powered machine that can predict the future. At least as far as weather is concerned.

These machines are the next-gen record presses our 21st century vinyl revolution has been waiting for.

The albatross has an 11-foot wingspan and a serious wanderlust, flying thousands of miles nonstop.

Astronomers have discovered seven dwarf planets orbiting a star 40 light years away from us. Not impressed? How about this — the planets may just be able to harbor life.

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

Iorek the robot not only understands your commands and gestures, but it asks for clarification if it's confused.

If a ballooning humanity wants to feed itself as global warming throws agriculture into disarray, it'll need the help of robots like Vinobot.

The Astrobee is a brilliant little robot that'll use puffs of air to autonomously float around the International Space Station.

Apple has unveiled the HomePod, a $350 wireless speaker with Siri baked right in.

Twelve new astronaut candidates just joined the ranks of those with the right stuff. Picked from a pool of 18,000 they may be among the first to journey to Mars. Four spoke with WIRED about getting the call and what they hope to accomplish.

The future of train transportation might be pneumatic tubes and magnets. Meet the 89-year old entrepreneur who wants to disrupt the railroad with a modern twist on a very old train idea.

Salto is a tiny robot with an incredible leap and a bright future in rescue operations.

Ride a pod down the Tron-like pipes of Hyperloop One, which just took a big stride toward the day it flings you between cities in near-vacuum tubes.

This is Taurus, SRI’s tele-operated robot, which ventures where human beings dare not.

Think of Tug as a self-driving car, only for the indoors. Oh, and it delivers drugs.

Five-foot-tall, 400-pound robots are on a mission to take a bite out of crime. The path there, though, is fraught with ethical pitfalls.

Robots are historically pretty bad at picking things up. But that's changing thanks to startups like Kindred, which is mixing advanced AI with remote controls to create robots that can pick and sort through objects at dizzying rates.

Seven years after an earthquake devastated Japan, humans and robots are still trying to clean up Fukushima.

19-year-old Lily Hevesh is obsessed with dominos. She spends hours upon hours building insanely intricate designs and chain reactions before knocking them down. Sound like a strange way to spend your time? Tell that to the nearly 2 million people who've subscribed to her YouTube Channel, where she posts new domino videos every Saturday.

A team from the University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory became the first student team to launch a rocket into space. WIRED's Arielle Pardes spoke with Neil Tewksbury, the team's Lead Operations Officer, about what it took to make it happen. Read more of the team's story on WIRED.com: https://www.wired.com/story/a-rocket-built-by-students-reached-space-for-the-first-time/

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Every summer, we welcome doctoral students as they develop independent research projects on their journey from inquiry to insight. Meet this year’s fellows and find out more about our fellowship program.

Fast-moving consumer goods major ITC Ltd has ramped up personal care production to meet the demand for sanitisers.