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?
It can be hard to grasp the reality of a process playing out incrementally, globally, and over the course of generations. It’s much easier if you have a compelling visualisation.
There's good reason why the world’s best minds aren't figuring out how to hack photosynthesis into humans.
From inquisitive fox cubs and invisible fish through to termite tossing birds and courting cuttlefish, this year’s crop is guaranteed to astound.
The remains were found during renovations to the Max Planck Institute in Munich.
Quickly! It's happening right now.
A new discovery pushes back the oldest evidence of life on Earth by about 220 million years, showing just how habitable our planet was during its earliest stages.
The Justinian plague claimed as many as 10,000 lives per day at its height.
The famous icy space rock is seen lighting up in a blaze of glory, as if suddenly slapped by an angry angel.
The Earth-like, habitable planet was discovered just last week and exciting plans are being formed on how to get a closer look.
If you ever need to stop a watermelon from smashing to pieces after a 45-metre drop, this is how you do it. See more >>
Much like their human hosts, some deadly pathogens just can’t let go.
It seems the poor thing can’t stop punching itself.
The closer of the two, hurricane Madeline, could break a second meteorological record as the first hurricane to strike the Big Island since bookkeeping began in 1949.
Having ended up pretty good at landing their rockets, SpaceX will now towards the other half of its plan to build fully reusable rockets.
98 per cent of existing pesticides don't even end up on the plants, so this is a much more efficient way of doing things.
