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?
Alexander von Humboldt recounted how natives in Venezuela used horses to lure and trap electric eels. Many scientists thought it was just a tall tale, but a new paper lends credence to the account.
And it neither popped nor floated away while he was inside. Success!
They certainly like to do things big in Dubai, don't they.
The Museum of Science Fiction has just released the second issue of its excellent new scifi publication.
Morally wrong? Sounds like it.
It’s yet another reason to ban these awful materials and to limit the amount of plastic entering into our lakes and oceans.
No need to panic, just because a frail human body is about to step into the vacuum of space, protected only by a reinforced bouncy castle. EVERYTHING IS FINE.
If you’ve ever held a high-quality camera lens, the first thing you notice is the weight. However, thanks to research being done at Harvard those giant glass-filled lenses might soon be obsolete.
Though looking at the photos of these underwater formations, it’s hard to blame the divers for coming up with their initial assessment.
He’s still convinced, despite the vociferous criticism, that he’s on to something.
We usually see rocket launches and landings from above. But there’s something about seeing the whole thing happen from the ground-up that’s just so much better. Read More >>
A new book explores the unexplored area of the Star Trek world that is its economical inner workings.
We rarely stop to think of just how many people the world’s airlines transport on any given day, never mind form a mental picture of that activity. Now there’s a nifty animated visualisation of how all those different airports around the globe are connected—a total of 3,200 airports and 60,000 routes in all. Read more >>
Astronomers are finally starting to cut through Jupiter’s swirling clouds to see what’s happening down below.
Details of the plan have finally been made public, and it’s as ambitious as it sounds
A new study suggests that dogs emerged from not one but two different populations of ancient wolves.
