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?
Joanna Ebenstein's book, Death: A Graveside Companion, reminds us that things haven’t changed all that much since people first started really thinking about what it means to be dead.
This charmer, known as Kengoro, can swing a tennis racquet, do pull-ups, and stand on his toes.
The shadow of an eclipse travels fast enough that it creates a bow wave in the atmosphere—the same idea as the trailing v-shaped waves left behind by boats travelling in water.
It was a big year for the building blocks of life.
In case you need further proof that we are, in fact, living on a globe rather than a flat disc.
Feel free to sing this to the tune of that Taylor Swift song. We definitely did.
The research is also available in Dothraki and High Valyrian so everyone can benefit from these findings.
There’s just something about science news that makes people really, really bad at covering it.
This extremely thin, skin-like patch uses electrical signals to drive glucose out of nearby blood vessels to the skin’s surface to be measured.
What better way to flex the muscle of the Falcon Heavy by having it fling a 4,000-pound Tesla Roadster into the Great Beyond?
Although this infectious disease currently afflicts a handful of species in the US and Europe, virtually every snake species in the world is at risk.
Sounds about right for 2017, really.
It all started with a simple post-infection recovery prostate massage.
"These benefits are on average about twice as large for people whose spouse is also their best friend."
This is an intense and lively area of scientific debate/
Automated decision-making is increasingly being used to determine real-life outcomes.
