Watch This Beautiful 10-Minute Film on the Current State of Neuroscience
The brain is one of the most-studied — and most complex — things on the planet, so it can be hard to keep up with what the current state of neuroscience is.
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 brain is one of the most-studied — and most complex — things on the planet, so it can be hard to keep up with what the current state of neuroscience is.
Scientists have long known that one little microbe is responsible for the infamous Black Death plague and now they’ve learned more about where it comes from.
This could save loads of lives and loads of money.
The point of the exercise is to help scientists prioritise future targets for close-ups from NASA’s yet-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope and other instruments.
Tomas Lindahl, Aziz Sancar, and Paul Modrich share this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping out the mechanics of how cells repair damaged DNA.
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for discovered that neutrinos can change from one type to another, evidence that—contrary to prior scientific consensus—they must have mass.
It’s way too early to tell if modern humans are descended from this species, but it’s clear we share a common ancestor.
Despite their popular reputation as dark inescapable pits, black holes really put out a lot of energy. They thrust out jets of matter and heat that matter up with friction as it swirls around them.
Blending different metals together produces an alloy, but layering them creates a bimetal that often has unique properties. One such unique property is to let this robot walk indefinitely across the pan without other power sources. Read More >>
You’re not imagining it, Morrisons really does play the best music in the country. We go 'Behind the Music', VH1-style, with retail's best algorithmic DJ. *Daft Punk used for illustrative purposes only*
There are plenty of happiness-measuring quizzes online, but most of them aren't rooted in science or dishing out meaningful advice. This new one aims to overcome that.
This Durham-based project is attempting to understand how galaxies form, using supercomputers and hydrodynamics.
It all comes down to krill, or more importantly when stocks of the tiny crustacean are scarce.
What goes in black will come out green. Not grass-green, but cartoon leprechaun-green.
This is a worker ant of the newly-discovered species Carebara lilith. You may notice that it has an absolutely enormous noggin. Why? Read More >>
The contaminated area of Belarus is teeming with wild animals, including elk, wild boar, deer and wolves. Perhaps surprisingly, many of these numbers seem to be on the rise and some of them are higher than in uncontaminated areas.
