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?
Every year, the Wellcome Trust rounds up the best biomedical images of the last twelve months as part of its Image Awards. This year, the pictures are a reminder of just how beautiful biology can be. See more >>
Proton pack construction and equations on whiteboards approved by real-life scientists.
Though it's not entirely clear why. Not that scientists don't have a few ideas.
Photographer Alfred Lee has captured a stunning image of an unusual cloud above Hong Kong—one that bears a striking resemblance to the spaceships in War of the Worlds. Read More >>
It might look like the surface of the Sun, but this is actually the complex simulated fluid dynamics of streamlines in turbulent liquid mercury. Read More >>
The newest blackest black material is even blacker than what we thought was the blackest black material. Read More >>
And without actually containing any of the element in question.
New proof that Pokémon live among us.
A Github page continuously jumbles letters to show an extreme version of what dyslexia sufferers face.
Open access science journal PLOS One is once again under scrutiny after a Creationist-minded research paper about the evolution of human hands got through peer review.
That’s a whole lot of scientific buzzwords in a single lump of feather-light material.
This robotic wheelchair is actually being controlled by a monkey's brain. Read More >>
Queen Mary Uni researchers' new tool is designed to fight terrorism but first they thought they'd have a go at finding Banksy.
The packaging has to be dehydrated to stop growth otherwise there won't be mushroom for the actual furniture.
A new NASA study found that a drought that ended in 2012 was the worst in nearly a millennium for a huge swath of the planet.
