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?
Last week, a slew of scientific papers told the story of comet lander Philae’s bumpy touchdown, comet 67P’s surprisingly fluffy surface, and — most excitingly — the discovery of life’s building blocks there. We haven’t found life. But we may have found part of life’s origin story, buried on this icy rock. Read More >>
Magnets are one of the few things that make life more interesting.
Why do scientists want to grow meat in vats instead of on animals, and how close are we to actually accomplishing it?
Losing your sense of smell takes away more than scents and flavours – it can fundamentally change the way you relate to other people.
It turns out that air con systems are biased towards certain body types and gender.
The global positioning system (GPS) can keep you from getting lost, manage air traffic, and help palaeontologists understand how an organism that’s been extinct for about 540 million years reproduced.
This is Shannon’s information theory, and it’s the equation that makes data compression possible. Without it, you couldn’t have loaded this page on the web.
Is it truly a case of fewer trees, less pollution?
Only about half of these videos are totally unfriendly to your gag reflex.
The wonder material gets a bit more wonderer-er.
Short answer: Move to Spain.
This isn’t a dirty, peeling sticker but a groundbreaking scientific first.
Lab-grown food rears its synthetic head again.
Let us all bow down and give praise to the floating shiny ball of fizz.
Study shows that doctors' techniques are improved when listening to some tunes.
Sadly, we're not talking about Google's face computer.
