Why Mark Kelly Is Now Older Than His Older Twin Brother
It’s due to a quirky little thing called time dilation: time can slow down for one person, but not for another.
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?
It’s due to a quirky little thing called time dilation: time can slow down for one person, but not for another.
This B-Roll of piping hot volcano footage is probably the most metal thing you'll see all day. Read More >>
The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country?
Tin foil fashionistas have long-attributed a number of sinister happenings to the atmospheric research programme known as HAARP, but after this week it will be a lot harder to entertain those claims.
Scientists with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) today confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri—our nearest neighbouring star.
His blue face and blank stare suggest a look of despair or simply disbelief.
Elastic bands can become colder than room temperature through sheer mechanical force. Let that weirdness sink in for a moment.
A recent study seems to be the first step in displaying scientific evidence in support of the claim that LSD helps expand your mind.
Is it possible to find trace evidence of supernovae from millions of years ago in the sediment lining the ocean floor? Apparently so.
What madman thought of this?
Life Noggin explains the math behind how long it would take, giving consideration to all that gravity nonsense, and comes up with a shockingly small number.
Generally, if scientists want to see how a living thing functions, they need to slice it into tiny pieces first. Now, there’s scientists a powerful and bizarre new tool in researchers’ arsenal.
Bagpipes and other wind instruments produce beautiful music, but they can also be prime breeding grounds for mould and fungi.
A new paper in Physical Review E. demonstrates that we still have a lot to learn about this seemingly simple everyday occurrence.
For those who haven’t been following the biggest science story of the year, gravitational waves are light-speed ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by such epically violent events as exploding stars and black hole mergers.
A proven strategy for getting somebody to read something is to give it a snappy title. It seems the same holds true for scholarly papers, at least in the field of psychology.
