How DNA Could Replace Hard Drives
The capacity of our digital storage devices has skyrocketed in recent years. But there’s one storage medium that still kicks the crap out of our state-of-the-art solid state, and humans didn’t invent it.
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 capacity of our digital storage devices has skyrocketed in recent years. But there’s one storage medium that still kicks the crap out of our state-of-the-art solid state, and humans didn’t invent it.
Space-grown grub is all the rage right now, but it's no easy task making plants thrive miles above Earth – according to these ISS astronauts.
Forgive this spiral galaxy if it looks a little messy. It’s the survivor of a galactic collision that bent and twisted the galaxy’s original shape, according to astronomers. Read more >>
Software that processes job applications, housing loan decisions, and other data that impacts people’s lives might be picking up biases along the way.
The nebula is the remnants of a supernova seen in 1054, but scientists are puzzled as to why it's expanding faster than expected.
There’s a good reason the image went viral: Rainbow lightning is a spectacular— and spectacularly rare —phenomenon. Read More >>
During pregnancy and childbirth it undergoes a remarkable transformation that lets it stretch and stretch and stretch.
It’s no surprise that people tamper with Wikipedia entries, but it turns out dedicated trolls have been sabotaging politically controversial science topics like evolution and global warming.
It sounds like an urban legend, but rats actually do manage to crawl up from the sewers and into unsuspecting residential toilets.
Doctors have been trying to find simpler and more convenient ways of giving patients drugs for years, and now it looks like someone's cracked it.
Yeast, that magical microorganism that provideth bread and beer, can now make narcotics, too.
Women who are over 40 have a notoriously hard time getting pregnant by IVF, and it’s long been assumed that their problem stems from “old eggs”. A new study suggests that may not be the case.
What was once the preserve of regal astronomers can now be done by anyone on the internet.
There’s been some confusion over the size of yesterday’s explosion in China’s Tianjin province, and you can partly blame our stupid system of measurement for the mistake.
And the “quakes” geophysicists saw don’t even begin to capture the magnitude of the blasts.
The mysteries of these slippery suckers's intelligence and camo-casting abilities are starting to unravel.
