2014 Was the Warmest Year on Record
Land temperatures, ocean temperatures, sea levels, and greenhouse gas levels all broke long-standing records.
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?
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.
It might look like some kind of primary school abstract painting, but you’re actually looking at a microscopic transistor which is made up of a single molecule and a smattering of atoms. It is so small that it has to be built under the lens of a powerful microscope. Read more >>
This is a scaleless blackfish. Isn't it adorably ugly? An Australian research vessel discovered the little fella, which spends its days living inside underwater volcanoes off the coast of the continent. Hot damn! Read more >>
When Geoff Watts went to a radon clinic within an Austrian mountain, he found the heat and humidity more troubling than the radioactivity.
GE has developed new imaging software that, instead of using harmful X-rays, relies on ultrasound, which is safe for even foetuses. With it they can generate real-time 3D views of our internal organs, like this one of a beating heart. Read more >>
Tame robot hammers Tesla in name of science.
Alan Stern, New Horizon’s principal investigator, answered questions on a truly historic event, discussing the team’s latest impressions of Pluto’s surface and much more.
Researchers have mapped out the distribution of space dust across three quarters of the night sky using data about 800 million stars/
Radioactivity stirs primal fears in many people—but an undue sense of its risks can cause real harm.
Ebola is a particularly scary disease not only because of the way in which it kills you, but because there’s no cure, and no real vaccine. That’s obviously something scientists are working to change.
Rise of the Pentaquarks.
Volcanic eruptions are awe-inspiring if you’re standing nearby — no wonder the Romans thought an angry god lived under Etna — but to get a real sense of perspective, it helps to be a little higher up. Read more >>
