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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?
But we are not talking Black Sabbath here, people. Let's get our geology on. (Honestly, it's beautiful.)
Prior to this design, decent false phalluses were hard to come by.
Ultraviolet makes this wee creature ultra-impressive.
Phytoplankton may be microscopic, but that doesn’t mean we can’t see them. Just look up.
A Seattle-based startup has a radical plan to save these incredible animals: Using synthetic biology to manufacture rhino horns in the lab.
Okay, fine, scientific explanations from The Onion really shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but what the hell.
Genetically modified raptor-rexes aren’t the only badass new dinos on the block. In fact, Zhenyuanlong suni, a Velociraptor cousin that looks like a tortured peacock on steroids, is arguably even cooler, because it actually existed. Read More >>
You probably already know male black widow spiders are risking their lives when they go courting—but it’s actually worse than that.
As we march deeper into the 21st century, we could have a lucrative new fuel on our hands. One that’s blue-green and sometimes a little smelly. It’s found in wastewater, but it’s capable of powering jets.
Meet the Swiss cheese of the material world. Very strong Swiss cheese.
Spoiler: it wasn't with a really long ruler.
Land temperatures, ocean temperatures, sea levels, and greenhouse gas levels all broke long-standing records.
There's more to summer than Minecraft. Maybe.
Sometimes the constant hum of air con can be even more annoying than the heat, so maybe it’s time to consider an unorthodox alternative like a giant heatsink dining table.
Fans, on numerous levels, suck: they’re noisy and use up power. But a 3D form of the material known as white graphene could help cool small electronic devices by itself.
Japanese medical researchers create a "dissolving needle" to take the pain out of vaccination.
