The stress from instability and trauma means that refugees are particularly vulnerable to mental disorders. The post The Quiet Epidemic of Mental Disorders in Refugees appeared first on WIRED.

With a little bit of backend mojo, this connected security camera can talk to all of your other smart devices. The post Make Netatmo’s Welcome Camera Your Home’s All-Seeing Eye appeared first on WIRED.

With production underway, Lucasfilm announces that Benicio del Toro and Laura Dern have been cast in the new, Rian Johnson-directed Star Wars movie. The post Benicio Del Toro and Laura Dern Join Star Wars: Episode VIII appeared first on WIRED.

Making a decision with every word you say may actually be like weightlifting for the brain. The post Being Bilingual Changes the Architecture of Your Brain appeared first on WIRED.

To give audiences a more candid perspective, this year's Grammys will have an embedded camera. Yes, the actual trophy will have a camera in it. Here's how. The post Making the GrammyCam, Awards Season’s Newest Meme Machine appeared first on WIRED.

Many of Casey Reas' programmatic artworks resemble things you see in nature—tangles of leaves, daffodils, bee colonies, algae—but they’re anything but. The post Why Use a Paintbrush When You Can Make Mind-Bending Art With Code? appeared first on WIRED.

In the age of human-induced mass extinction, frogs face great peril, which makes cataloging and understanding them of urgent importance. The post Frogs Are Really Cool. Too Bad Humans Are Killing Them All appeared first on WIRED.

The service best known for showing last night's TV wants to be something much bigger. The post The Ambitious 11.22.63 Is the Beginning of a Brand New Hulu appeared first on WIRED.

New Zealand's caves are home to thousands of glowworms. Jordan Poste took 60 hours of footage to create a stunning time-lapse of the phenomenon. The post Lose Yourself in a Time-Lapse of Carnivorous Glowworms appeared first on WIRED.

This week we've got news and rumors about the first Star Wars standalone film. And sex toys. Some of it's true, some less likely so, but it's all here. The post Cantina Talk: No, Target Isn’t Selling Star Wars-Themed Sex Toys appeared first on WIRED.

Is Mercury in cyber-retrograde or something? Because this week the Internet was even weirder than usual. Catch up on everything that happened here. The post While You Were Offline: Kanye West Has the Best Tweets of All Time! OF ALL TIME! appeared first on WIRED.

The Internet of Things is connecting your home via gadgets that are always listening. This week the government admits it wants in. The post Security News This Week: The Government Wants to Listen In on Your Smart Home appeared first on WIRED.

Unravel really tries. But it doesn't quite have it. The adventure, starring the mascot-ready Yarny, goes for resonant, but is mostly unremarkable. The post Unravel, a Game About a Yarn Person, Tries Way Too Hard appeared first on WIRED.

Space photos of the week, February 7 – 13, 2016. The post Space Photos of the Week: A Diva Star’s Gotta Shine appeared first on WIRED.

The same brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time. The research suggests that our thoughts may take place on a mental space-time canvas. The post New Clues to the Mystery of How Our Brains Keep Time appeared first on WIRED.

In the latest "Geek's Guide to the Galaxy" podcast the panel discusses the need for greater diversity in science fiction. The post Every Galaxy Needs More Than Three People of Color appeared first on WIRED.

Check out a preview for Disney XD's new Lego Star Wars short here. The post This New Animated Lego Star Wars Short Looks Legit appeared first on WIRED.

This week photographer Adam Voorhes discovers the best Instagram has to offer. The post Instagram Rabbit Hole: Snake Wranglin’ and a Moody Orange appeared first on WIRED.

The cloud of methane is temporarily controlled, and a permanent fix is on the way. The post SoCalGas Plugs the Massive Porter Ranch Methane Leak—For Now appeared first on WIRED.

What's the point of last year's game "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture"? WIRED editors take a deep dive into this spiritual, uplifting game. The post Game|Life Podcast: It’s Finally Safe for Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture Spoilers appeared first on WIRED.

The trolls have gone retro. The post Don’t Set Your iPhone Back to 1970, No Matter What appeared first on WIRED.

OK Go has created another epic video. This one involves a zero g environment inside of an aircraft. Here' how it works. The post The Physics of OK Go’s Epic New Zero-G Video appeared first on WIRED.

Inspired by one enterprising script doctor, we've come up with an easy way for writers to avoid writing bad female characters. It's called The Jane Test. The post The ‘Jane Test,’ a New Way to Tell if Your Scripts Are Sexist appeared first on WIRED.

Researchers have uncovered ties between the attack against Sony in late 2014 and more recent hacks, suggesting the culprits are still active. The post Evidence Suggests the Sony Hackers Are Alive and Well and Still Hacking appeared first on WIRED.

This is the saga of bowerbird hanky-panky, a romance packed with more lies, illusions, and thievery than a soap opera—with none of the insufferable soft focus. The post Absurd Creature of the Week: Meet the Bird That Lies and Tricks Its Way Into Sex appeared first on WIRED.

The only one who can step to the Merc with a Mouth when it comes to insults is Selina Meyer. But can you tell their barbs apart? Test your skills here. The post Who Said It: Deadpool or Veep’s Selina Meyer? appeared first on WIRED.

A website hopes to teach women how to have better orgasms, backed up by data. The post Silicon Valley Wants to Disrupt Orgasms—With Science! appeared first on WIRED.

Solar reflective paint aims to minimize the amount of heat a car’s exterior paint absorbs. The post Toyota’s Lime Green Paint May Be Ugly, But It Can Cut Gas Bills appeared first on WIRED.

For bartenders and cocktail aficionados, carbonation of more than water is an exciting prospect. The post Review: DrinkMate Carbonator appeared first on WIRED.

Steph Curry, James Harden, and even the TNT announcers are all getting the emoji treatment that fans can tweet all weekend long. The post The NBA All-Star Game’s 24 Superstars Get Their Very Own Emoji appeared first on WIRED.

The game, called "Only One," depicts a winged angelic version of the late Donda West soaring through heaven. The post Kanye West Is Releasing a Videogame About His Late Mother appeared first on WIRED.

The frontman of the Canadian supergroup that includes Neko Case and Dan Bejar breaks down the title track from the band's sixth album. The post Song Exploder: Why the New Pornographers’ ‘Brill Bruisers’ Needed Nonsense appeared first on WIRED.

Lots of clues to what's going to go down on the sixth season of the HBO show in these. Check them out here. The post Game of Thrones: Here Are 20 Brand New Images From Season 6 appeared first on WIRED.

Activision and Bungie will release the sequel to their hit online first-person shooter next year, with a "large new expansion" this year. The post Destiny Sequel Coming in 2017, Following a Big Expansion appeared first on WIRED.

After a month of blockbuster surprises from Rihanna, Beyonce, Drake, and Future, Kanye is the latest to turn sound into spectacle—and get everyone talking. The post People Won’t Just Listen to Kanye’s Life of Pablo Album—They’ll Talk About It appeared first on WIRED.

In the recent LIGO announcement, it was claimed the event was two colliding black holes 1.3 billion years ago. How do we know this? The post Using Gravitational Waves to Pinpoint Colliding Black Holes appeared first on WIRED.

If wondering about the fates of Captain America and Deadpool is too much stress for you, won't you consider a getaway to lovely Gotham? The post Cape Watch: DC’s Worldbuilding for Batman v Superman Is Getting Serious appeared first on WIRED.

For the Amazon series, visual effects artists had to turn Canada into America in 1962–run by Axis powers. The post Design FX: The Peculiar Challenges of Making Man in the High Castle’s Nazi-Run World appeared first on WIRED.

The historical action game series won't have a new entry in 2016 after slow sales of last year's "Syndicate." The post Ubisoft Won’t Release a New Assassin’s Creed in 2016 appeared first on WIRED.

Zika can be transmitted through blood transfusions. But the technology to inactivate nearly all pathogens in donated blood exists---and it’s existed for over a decade. The post The US Has the Tech to Keep Zika Out of the Blood Supply appeared first on WIRED.

Our best look yet at Alfred, Wonder Woman, and Batman punching things. The post New Batman v Superman Trailer Offers a Closer Look at Batman appeared first on WIRED.

Like Netflix before it, YouTube’s Red Originals don’t show how many people have watched them. The post How Many People Watch YouTube’s Original Series? Shhh. It’s a Secret appeared first on WIRED.

A new list of encryption products available around the world shows just how easy it would be to evade government-mandated backdoors in encrypted devices. The post Encryption Is Worldwide: Yet Another Reason Why a US Ban Makes No Sense appeared first on WIRED.

Direct evidence at last for gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime that Einstein predicted 100 years ago, comes from a years-long Big Physics project. The post LIGO’s First-Ever Detection of Gravitational Waves Opens a New Window on the Universe appeared first on WIRED.

The world's first super-luxury SUV is a remarkably capable hunk of machinery. The post Bentley’s Uber-Luxury Bentayga SUV Is a Supercar Shaped Like an SUV appeared first on WIRED.

The move, Ideo says, isn’t a financial liferaft. It's about maximizing the company's impact. The post Ideo Sold Part of Itself and Joined a Collective. But Why? appeared first on WIRED.

Hey kiddies! Before you head off to see the Merc with a Mouth's new movie this weekend, we have a little bit of homework for you. The post The 5 Comics You Have to Read Before Seeing Deadpool appeared first on WIRED.

Instead of headlines, you get messages that read like texts from a friend—if your friend were a news-obsessed but reliable source. The post With Quartz’s App, You Don’t Read the News. You Chat With It appeared first on WIRED.

Using open government data and free web tools, you can keep an eye on North Korea's Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite. The post How to Track North Korea’s New Satellite as It Streaks Through Space appeared first on WIRED.