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?
Australia currently hosts some of the world's most upsetting creatures, but as it turns out, incredibly strange animals have lived there for thousands of years.
This is the 29th running of the contest, which pokes fun at the quirkiest, weirdest, and least necessary scientific research.
Turns out the body is even more complicated and interconnected than we have assumed it to be.
Flipping the Hubble constant on its head.
They claim it's 10 times blacker than any other material made to date.
From animals fighting for their lives to the subtle beauty of a bird drinking from an icicle, these photographs are nothing short of remarkable.
These new findings make it one of the most promising places in the galaxy to look for signs of extraterrestrial life.
This new study is the latest to show why it’s important for scientists to include both male and female test subjects in their research.
The remark has sparked outrage among Japanese fishermen and environmental groups.
Possible applications include military camouflage that could be updated in the field to match new environments, or clothing that could be customised to match an existing outfit.
An amateur astronomer may have detected an object from outside our solar system,
Superbolts, the strongest lightning bolts, occur at surprising times and in surprising places, a new study has found.
At 80,000 years old, the prints chronicle a single, precious moment in the lives of these extinct hominins.
Sounds like a Game of Thrones creature, but it's a real-life 77-million-year-old fossil.
It only confirms that there’s a tonne of biodiversity in the world that we don’t yet know about.
It's probably best if we don't let Boris Johnson speak to aliens.
