2017's Best Space Explosions
These sweet explosions are some of astronomy’s most exciting events, teaching us things we may never have learned about otherwise.
While the bread and butter of Gizmodo UK is in the bits and bytes of technology, we have a lot of fun in the off-topic areas, with many of the stories being filed in the WTF category. Bookmark this page for the sillier stories, from ridiculous examples of body-art, to... sausages made of skittles?
These sweet explosions are some of astronomy’s most exciting events, teaching us things we may never have learned about otherwise.
It has no mouth, so we won’t be able to hear it scream.
Lego race cars not only help students grasp theoretical physics concepts, but also improve their lab reporting skills, engagement and confidence.
A gene drive is a controversial form of genetic engineering that allows researchers in a lab to override the rules of natural selection.
"I don’t want to be considered a superheroine."
Joanna Ebenstein's book, Death: A Graveside Companion, reminds us that things haven’t changed all that much since people first started really thinking about what it means to be dead.
This charmer, known as Kengoro, can swing a tennis racquet, do pull-ups, and stand on his toes.
The shadow of an eclipse travels fast enough that it creates a bow wave in the atmosphere—the same idea as the trailing v-shaped waves left behind by boats travelling in water.
It was a big year for the building blocks of life.
In case you need further proof that we are, in fact, living on a globe rather than a flat disc.
Feel free to sing this to the tune of that Taylor Swift song. We definitely did.
The research is also available in Dothraki and High Valyrian so everyone can benefit from these findings.
There’s just something about science news that makes people really, really bad at covering it.
This extremely thin, skin-like patch uses electrical signals to drive glucose out of nearby blood vessels to the skin’s surface to be measured.
What better way to flex the muscle of the Falcon Heavy by having it fling a 4,000-pound Tesla Roadster into the Great Beyond?
Although this infectious disease currently afflicts a handful of species in the US and Europe, virtually every snake species in the world is at risk.
