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?
Watch this powerful laser shining into a piece of aluminium foil suspended in a vacuum and, fascinatingly, you’ll see the foil starting to sway back and forth from the ultra light beam. Read more >>
Something to ponder when you’re momentarily hanging in free fall on your favourite coaster.
The claret-ified beams are designed to help better spot tumours in the human body.
Why don’t androids care about electric sheep?
Into high-intensity interval training? Give it a break.
The state has more coastline than any other state touching the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic, so the odds were never in Florida’s favour.
Astronomers from the University of Arizona have determined that there were at least two earlier explosions in the star’s long history, making this a very strange star system indeed.
Though it might not be what you think.
Basically, junctions are bad for traffic because they inevitably lead to so-called phantom traffic jams.
Hundreds of thousands of ants have been found chilling out in this abandoned Soviet bunker. Read More >>
Mark Rubinstein is a former practising psychiatrist who has drawn on his years of clinical experience to shed light on the complexities of the human mind with real stories about real people. Gizmodo sat down with him to learn more.
A camera aboard the Landsat 8 satellite has been tracking the progress of oil fires in Iraq that have been burning since June. Read More >>
A team of Belgian researchers has closed the case on the origins of a mysterious smudge. Long believed to be bird poo, they found that it is bees wax.
Scientists working in British Columbia have uncovered the fossils of a small Cretaceous-era pterosaur, showing this extinct flying reptile came in travel size.
The only proof you need that the Sun is the one and true master of our solar system is this never-before-seen view of a torrent of charged particles bursting out of our star’s corona. Read More >>
The unusually strong quake will likely draw further scrutiny to the practice of disposing oil and gas field wastewater deep underground.
