Booze Not So Great for the Heart After All, Study Says
Drink to your heart’s content, but know that even moderate drinking might be bad for it.
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?
Drink to your heart’s content, but know that even moderate drinking might be bad for it.
Food, pills, electronics, and well, most things, could be a lot more colourful in the future thanks to these single-centimetre iridescent cellulose films.
Sexual selection has made birds evolve some pretty strange behaviour.
As long as there have been games, there have been shady players trying to cheat.
The announcement comes at a time when India’s massive, nationwide biometric data collection programme is under scrutiny.
One of fiction’s most commonly used plot devices—a knock on the head used to render someone momentarily unconscious—is a lot more harmful in the real world.
Learning from scratch, and with limited human intervention, the digital characters learned how to kick, jump, and flip their way to success.
Facebook now has the daunting challenge of devising an AI system that can do what human communities have consistently failed to do—is it even possible?
As incredible as CRISPR is, it also has some pretty sizeable flaws to overcome before it can live up to its hype as a veritable cure-all for human disease.
With its potential for global travel and remote locations, there has recently been a certain Indiana Jones quality attached to the profession of meteorite hunting.
Using ingredients found in bones and teeth, Chinese researchers have developed wallpaper that sounds the alarm when heat and flames are detected.
There are few things that paint this picture better than the Einstein Ring.
What's the scientific term for "UGH NO"?
However, the primary goal of the mission will be to explore the iceberg that calved from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf in July of last year.
If it detects certain gases in the planet's atmosphere, that could mean Mars is still very geologically active.
It’s just a lone, boney middle finger, but the scientists who found it say it’s the oldest directly dated fossil of our species to ever be found.
