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?
These are the galaxies of Hickson Compact Group 87, about 400 million light years from Earth, as seen from the mountains of Chile. Just as the planets of our solar system orbit the Sun, and all the stars in our galaxy orbit the galaxy’s centre, the galaxies of groups like HCG 87 orbit a common centre of gravity – creating a kind of cosmic, balletic dance. Read more >>
It's the third case to crop up in the States this year.
This gorgeous filtered image is a 6,000-year-old snapshot of a slowly dying star. Read More >>
Sex partners trade a lot of micro organisms, and not all of them are detrimental to your health.
If you’d like to wish on a shooting star, this week is a great opportunity. The Perseid meteor shower will peak on Wednesday, August 12th and Thursday, August 13th.
You can watch summer's extreme weather move around the Earth with this animated map from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read More >>
A newly discovered material can capture CO2 and convert the greenhouse gas into fuel.
The deep ocean is home to some of the ugliest creatures imaginable, so this newly discovered anglerfish, which looks like a radioactive turkey leg with a spiny mouth face, is fitting in just swimmingly. Read More >>
Basically, we know something is out there, it interacts with gravity and there is a lot of it.
A new study by scientists at the University of Utah School of Medicine reveals that big families have viral infections for an amazing 87 per cent of the year.
If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to see the world as a lizard or a bumble bee or some other animal, you’re in luck.
The source of the problem is clear: greater demand for biofuels, intended to reduce emissions from fossil fuels, requires massive increases in irrigation in productive but relatively arid American farmland.
According to a study published today in Science, Homo sapiens have shed about 40.7 million base pairs of DNA since migrating out of Africa nearly two million years ago.
The technique could one day help rejuvenate failing tissues in the brains of sufferers of the disease.
From Bangladesh to Amsterdam, these are the fortifications being thought-up to fight flooding.
Forget the Fitbit: in our quest for ever-better sleep trackers, we may have to turn to an older technology for results.
