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?
This research reveals just how much data your car is actually collecting—and that turning over all that data through apps or insurance company dongles may be revealing more about yourself than you realise.
Antibiotics could be making cows gassier and boosting their contribution to global warming.
Modern golf clubs can split the ears of players and nearby spectators, and researchers know why it happens and how it could be fixed.
What is 'vocal fry?' It is either a hot new trend or the bane of cultured discourse, depending on who you ask.
These special hunks of Red Planet are nearly four billion years old and offer evidence of an Earth-like marine environment.
The unusual behaviour could explain how dangerous diseases such as Ebola spread among species — and eventually to humans.
Scientists at the Florida Institute of Technology recently captured a beautiful lightning storm using a new high speed camera. The stunning slow-motion lightning in this video was recorded at 7,000 frames per second, with the playback speed adjusted to 700 frames per second. See more >>
Among the (many) mysteries surrounding them is how they managed to get so big, so fast. Finally, scientists have come up with an explanation for their improbably large existence.
If you’ve ever found your fingers unintentionally bonded together after using an especially strong glue, you’ll appreciate the latest innovation from researchers at the Max Planck Institute.
The towering plume is actually billowing smoke rising up from the raging firestorms that followed the explosion.
A German team of engineers has managed to beam 6 gigabits per second over a 23-mile distance, smashing the old record by a factor of 10.
Step aside with your claims to long legacies, craft breweries!
Watching the Game of Thrones intro recreated with slime mould is absolutely glorious. Read More >>
It's all about a bit of dazzle.
Researchers hope the device could one day replace heart rate monitors.
Filmmakers have come under fire before for inaccurate depictions of dinosaurs. A University of Toronto Mississauga palaeontologist has another possible discrepancy to add to that list.
