Sydney is Getting the Library of the Future
The library will occupy two floors, and will house a lot more than just books.
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?
The library will occupy two floors, and will house a lot more than just books.
Silly humans....acting irrationally in the heat of the moment, squishy emotions leading to defeat.
A new discovery not only makes it easier for scientists to sex different fossils, it gives us an insight into the evolution of birds.
Landfills are where the once-majestic birds get their fill nowadays, according to research from the University of East Anglia.
Such a “joint rupture” may have happened before — and it could very well happen again.
Wow, this really is a terrible spot to open up an old people's home. Read More >>
The unprecedented discovery of these enigmatic patches reaffirms an ongoing theory about their origin. (It’s not aliens.)
We’ve known for years now that some bacteria have tails known as flagellum that propel them forwards, but we’ve never managed to take a detailed look at what powers them. These new images, however, reveal how the naturally occurring motors work. Read more >>
This horse-sized dinosaur lived roughly 90 million years ago and provides key clues to a gap in dinosaur evolution records.
Arachnophobes look away now.
A maths duo decided to test a long held number assumption, and to their shock, they discovered that it doesn’t exist.
If you thought lithium-ion batteries catching fire were dangerous, how about a portable power source that actually relies on igniting its fuel from the get-go?
Radiation is all around us and too much of radiation is a bad thing so... are we all just screwed? Not exactly.
Microsoft’s UK research lab team in Cambridge claims that the endless possibility of Minecraft makes it an ideal “digital playpen” for artificial intelligence.
If you don't want to need a host of steroidal injections in your neck, you don't want to develop occipital neuralgia – a condition that seems to be caused by constantly looking down at handheld devices.
That fateful day when machines finally become smarter than humans has never appeared closer — yet the truth is hard to grasp. It's time to bust some myths about the machines.
