Coral researcher Ruth Gates intends to breed—and eventually introduce—climate-adapted “super coral” to the ocean to help bring the world’s ailing reefs back to life. The post The Controversial Race to Breed Climate-Adapted Super Coral appeared first on WIRED.

Sugar is a volatile commodity with a bad public image. For the world's biggest soda maker, that makes sugar bad business. The post Sugar's Not Just Bad for You—It's Bad for Coca-Cola's Business appeared first on WIRED.

Can the sitcom star take the place of the much-loved Jeremy Clarkson? The post Matt LeBlanc (Yes, Joey From Friends) Is Just the Guy to Resurrect Top Gear appeared first on WIRED.

Australia is huge—really huge. Gabriel Scanu lets you take it all in with his drone photography. The post Instagram of the Week: Sweeping Drone Aerials Prove Australia Is Officially Too Big appeared first on WIRED.

No need to be in the same room to enjoy a vinyl-spinning DJ. The post Stream Your Vinyl Records With a Lovely Wireless Turntable appeared first on WIRED.

The MIT Media Lab built a shape-shifting display that can mimic material properties like flexibility, elasticity, and viscosity. The post MIT's New Shapeshifting Interface Can Mimic The Behavior of Water appeared first on WIRED.

After physicists finally confirmed the existence of the long-sought Higgs boson, many researchers found themselves out of a job. Where they ended up would surprise you. The post How a Physicist Who Helped Find the Higgs Boson Got Into Horse Apps appeared first on WIRED.

Today both Toyota and VW said they were pouring money into ride-hailing startups as Silicon Valley redefines the future of getting around. The post Calling an Uber Is Cooler Than Owning a Car—And Automakers Want In appeared first on WIRED.

Facebook may be a rookie when it comes to news judgment, but it is a veteran at data mining. Now, it's using those skills to its advantage. The post With Trending Topics, Facebook Is Creating Its Own News Cycle appeared first on WIRED.

Blizzard's latest game strikes me as a profound new step for online competitive shooters, one that strives to engender positive feelings all around. The post Overwatch: A Laid-Back Shooter Without the Crappy Attitudes appeared first on WIRED.

Two artists built a robot that sorts stones and it's totally spellbinding. The post Someone Built a Rock-Sorting Robot and It Is Downright Hypnotizing appeared first on WIRED.

With three motors instead of a V8, this 1978 Ferrari 308GTS runs on nothing but electricity. The post We Drive an All-Electric Ferrari, The Car that Shouldn’t Exist appeared first on WIRED.

Despite what people might claim, the busy week in volcanism isn't part of a greater pattern or magical planetary alignment. The post Please Don't Blame Mars for This Week's Explosive Volcanic Eruptions appeared first on WIRED.

To celebrate the release of the "Fight Club 2" graphic novel, we asked the writer for a virtual tour of his adopted city. The post Heading to Portland? Chuck Palahniuk's Got Some Ideas appeared first on WIRED.

You get 140 characters for your words. Everything else is Twitter's problem now. The post Twitter Unveils Big New Changes to Prove the Fun Ain't Gone appeared first on WIRED.

The Core costs $69, clips to your shirt or keychain, and may hold the key to everything Pebble wants to do in the future. The post Pebble's Best Gadget Isn't a Watch—It's the Core, a Tiny Spotify Player appeared first on WIRED.

The solution seems obvious—block ’em!—but it's actually a bit more nuanced than that. The post Dear Mr. Know-It-All: Someone Is Hate-Retweeting Me. What Should I Do? appeared first on WIRED.

When light reflects off a mirror, the incident angle is equal to the reflected angle. Is the same true for a ball bouncing off a wall? The post We Swear There's a Reason to Model This Ball Bouncing Off a Wall appeared first on WIRED.

Apocalyptic photos of once-glorious technology now sitting empty and abandoned. The post The Snowy Graveyards Where Soviet Subs and Planes Go to Die appeared first on WIRED.

“Playboy Architecture, 1953—1979" is a new exhibit that’s up at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Chicago. The post Playboy Wouldn’t Be Playboy Without Groovy Bachelor Pads appeared first on WIRED.

It's about to be summer, and you should go outside. Before you do, watch these movies on Netflix. The post The 10 Must-Watch Movies Leaving Netflix Next Month appeared first on WIRED.

Reddit's former product chief says the best way to curb abuse online is to build in community standards from the start. The post Imzy: Can an Ex-Reddit Exec Really Hack the Online Abuse Problem? appeared first on WIRED.

Police interrogations are built on the assumption that innocent people never confess to crimes they didn’t commit. But false confessions are fairly common. The post Why People Confess to Crimes They Didn't Commit appeared first on WIRED.

In this exclusive WIRED interview, Al Gore weighs in on the presidential election, the Iraq war, and, of course, the ongoing battle against climate change. The post 10 Years After An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore May Actually Be Winning appeared first on WIRED.

A novel interrogation technique borrowed from the war on terror is transforming the art of detective work: Shut up and let the suspect do the talking. The post A Severed Head, Two Cops, and the Radical Future of Interrogation appeared first on WIRED.

The unique Olympus TG-Tracker shoots 4K video through an ultra-wide-angle lens and has a pistol-grip handle, a headlight, and instruments galore. The post The New Underwater Olympus Is the Platypus of Cameras appeared first on WIRED.

Something happened last week. Maybe it was a Google thing? We talk about it. The post Gadget Lab Podcast: Google I/O Was Fun, Freaky, and Very Warm appeared first on WIRED.

It's a week for origin stories—Hodor, White Walkers, the Faceless Men—though their motivations end up feeling more opaque than ever. The post Game of Thrones Recap: Learning the Beginnings of the End appeared first on WIRED.

Bell Helmets takes data from customer head scans to offer better fitting helmets. The post Bell's Moto Helmet Fits All the Funny-Shaped Heads Out There appeared first on WIRED.

This week's roundup of Star Wars news has a few great details about the eighth episode in the series—and some things about 'Rogue One' that may be true. The post Cantina Talk: The Dark Knights Might Return in Episode VIII appeared first on WIRED.

We asked seven leaders at some of the biggest companies how design impacts their business---here's what they had to say. The post How Design Is Shaping the Future at Tech Giants Like Facebook appeared first on WIRED.

This crab has everything: wildly powerful claws, the ability to invade your nightmares, and a penchant for coconuts and sometimes kittens. The post Absurd Creatures: Three-Foot-Wide Crab Will Eat Your Soul and Maybe Also Kittens appeared first on WIRED.

Ivanpah, the world’s largest solar plant, is a glittering sea of mirrors that concentrate sunlight into three blindingly bright towers. Too bad it's so expensive. The post A Huge Solar Plant Caught on Fire, and That’s the Least of Its Problems appeared first on WIRED.

Some commutes are hellish. Some are delightful. On this map, they're all beautiful. The post America's Heinous Commutes, Mapped in Pretty GIFs appeared first on WIRED.

The legal battle between Oracle and Google is about to come to an end. And nothing less is as stake than the future of programming. The post The Oracle-Google Case Will Decide the Future of Software appeared first on WIRED.

If you mix early Tarantino, Ken Starr, and Rage Against the Machine, you'd get the comic Preacher. Yet, 20 years later, the 2016 TV show works wonderfully. The post Against All Odds, Preacher Turns a '90s Relic Into a Really Good Show appeared first on WIRED.

Laura Morton photographs the gutsy, young upstarts of San Francisco. There's plenty of VR, hackatons and even "cuddle puddles." The post Hack, Hack, Hustle, Nap, Repeat: Life as a Young Techie in San Francisco appeared first on WIRED.

The best wireless running headphones are back with a more compact, more sensible design. The post Review: Jaybird Freedom appeared first on WIRED.

Here are are the gambler's odds for a few of the most (and least) likely characters to croak during tonight's episode. The post Game of Thrones Death Pool: Who’s Gonna Bite It Tonight? appeared first on WIRED.

This week, Kanye West offered up ideas to make the world a better place, a political hashtag went awry (again), and one James Bond became James Gone. The post While You Were Offline: Kanye Wasn’t Kidding When He Said He Called Payless appeared first on WIRED.

A small group of citizens are on a mission to convince lawmakers that going to Mars is both possible and affordable. The post The Citizen Lobbyists Gunning for a Trip to Mars appeared first on WIRED.

We caught up with executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to hear how they skirted Preacher's many adaptation pitfalls on the way to TV heaven. The post How Preacher Went From Fringe Comic to Sinfully Good TV appeared first on WIRED.

Even with all the violence and sadness, it's still possible to enjoy Outlander---because we know that Claire will ultimately get back to the 20th century. The post Outlander Recap: Just Close Your Eyes and Think of Scotland appeared first on WIRED.

In the new 'Geek's Guide to the Galaxy' podcast, author Mark Adams discusses how the aversion to the subject of Atlantis in academia lead to his last book. The post Searching for Atlantis Really Isn't the Best Career Move appeared first on WIRED.

American Pharoah's Triple Crown victory last year wasn't just a win for him. It brought a new, online-savvy generation—and their money—to horse racing. The post The Quest to Make Horse Racing Cool Again appeared first on WIRED.

Maria Bamford's new Netflix comedy is about mental illness, Hollywood, and various other states of arrested development. And it's absolutely Bam-tastic. The post Lady Dynamite Is Your First Must-Binge Show of the Summer appeared first on WIRED.

An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that avoids the most baffling features of the subatomic universe. The post New Evidence Could Overthrow the Standard View of Quantum Mechanics appeared first on WIRED.

Each Saturday we round up the biggest security news stories of the week. The post Security News This Week: Russia's FindFace Face-Recognition App Is a Privacy Nightmare appeared first on WIRED.

In addition to the city it consumed to earn its name, the Fort McMurray fire has burned forest over 500,000 hectares of land across northern Alberta. The post In Case You Forgot, Canada's Massive Fort McMurray Fire Is Still Burning appeared first on WIRED.

Space photos of the week, May 15 - 21, 2016. The post Space Photos of the Week: A Neon Nebula Struts Its Stuff appeared first on WIRED.