Think We're Living in a Computer Simulation? Prove It
If you think you can prove it, you’ll need a lot more than some hand-waving or philosophical waxing.
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?
If you think you can prove it, you’ll need a lot more than some hand-waving or philosophical waxing.
The truth is that this hunk of floating space rock we call home will live on long after humanity. The real losers of climate change will be us.
We've got some beautiful rare butterflies here in England, haven't we? It would be a real shame if some of them... went missing.
Scientists in China have discovered male damselflies caught in the act of trying to court females inside a piece of 100-million-year old amber.
Pretty much everything that’s great about technology today is thanks to the microprocessor.
It's a freakishly beautiful swirl.
That future is not quiiiite here yet. But it could be close.
It's estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
How will humans fare, both physically and psychologically, in such a harsh environment?
Apparently, during “lights out inspections,” James Webb gets a little creepy.
Is this the first step towards 'designer' babies?
We all like to admire ourselves in the mirror from time to time, but there’s a bird in Australia that seems to have developed a rather unhealthy fixation.
They say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but for JUICE the quickest route will involve a rather convoluted journey requiring four gravitational assists with three different planets.
Metals within newly found rocks contained a special signature, one that implies a specific kind of crust very shortly after the Earth formed, which was possibly more Martian than Earth-like.
This could clue us in to how young galaxies transformed into ones like ours, and the role dark matter played in this transformation.
While Cassini’s goodbye tour has been full of excellent images, this one of Mimas is particularly exquisite.
