Watch the Soyuz Launch Three Astronauts to the Space Station Live
Three new astronauts will start a trip up to the International Space Station tomorrow morning—and it all begins with a ride on the Soyuz spacecraft.
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?
Three new astronauts will start a trip up to the International Space Station tomorrow morning—and it all begins with a ride on the Soyuz spacecraft.
Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost immediately under strange circumstances. Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died. Read More >>
Scientists working at CERN have found four new “tetraquark” particles comprised of the same four subatomic building blocks.
In just a few short months, the long-standing debate — space harpoon versus giant butterfly net — will finally be settled.
Summer is here, and it’s time for some hot bear-on-fish action, coming to you live from Alaska's Katami National Park.
Competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut set a new record this week when he scarfed down a whopping 70 hot dogs and buns in just 10 minutes at the annual Famous Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in Coney Island. How do he and other champion competitive eaters do it? Read more >>
The rapidly spreading disease causes abnormal growths on the skin, mouth, eyes, and internal organs.
Nothing they are doing or planning is really new. What is interesting here, though, is just how big this place is.
These Olympics are poised to be the strangest in recent memory.
Phobos and Deimos, Mars’ lumpy, runty moons, were once pegged as captured asteroids. But the truth is shaping up to be far more interesting.
The reason is not that we’re growing more food. Food is just getting cheaper.
See Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto as they orbit their gas giant like hands of a clock.
Aside from the obvious hot-burning chemicals, there's a lot of interesting science that goes into the workings of these fizzing sticks.
Are you an aspiring alchemist? Do you try to turn lead into gold? What about fun snaps into silver? It turns out you can extract small amounts of precious metals from these childhood-classic prank bangers. See more >>
NASA JPL scientist Glenn Orton shares his knowledge about Jupiter, the Juno mission, what the team will learn about our solar system, and more.
A new University of Cambridge study offers fascinating details about this poorly documented area of human medical history.
