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?
This strange-looking thing is the result of a can of Coca-Cola being dropped into liquid nitrogen, as part of a madcap experiment performed by eccentric British scientist Sir Martin Poliakoff. Watch it now >>
Six scientists spend two-thirds of a year in a structure in Hawaii to simulate life on the Red Planet.
Geologists have calculated that the Nepal earthquake moved Mount Everest by three centimetres. The southwesterly shift counters a few years of the mountain heading in a northeasterly direction.
We're presuming that he has already started growing dreads to fit in with other eco-warriors.
This seems NSFW but somehow it isn't.
No more doctors blindly jabbing at patients' testes in attempt to locate the elusive swimmers.
Even rock, paper, scissors has failed to settle a consensus on the matter.
Did you know you could spot the International Space Station from a plane? Neither did I! But photographer Trevor Mahlmann had an inkling on a flight last week. So, he got out his gear and managed to shoot this gorgeous, long-exposure photo of the ISS zooming by like a shooting star. Read more >>
That’d be Elsevier, which recently filed a complaint at a New York district court against Library Genesis and SciHub.org, two massive online hubs for scientific research articles.
Life on WASP-33b would basically be hell—the titanic exoplanet’s atmosphere ranges from 3,315 to 1,648 degrees Celsius. But hey, at least you wouldn’t have to bring sunscreen.
Right now, you can watch human and robots perform ballet together at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in a piece called “Robot.” It’s about humans teaching robots to dance.
Ants do a lot of things that seem uncannily human — and yet they’re profoundly alien. What does that feel like to each individual ant? Now a new scientific paper suggests that there is always doubt in the hive mind.
Using the hashtag #distractinglysexy, people are posting ironic pictures of famed female scientists, while working scientists are taking selfies so hot it’s like they’re saturated with thermal energy.
This image captures the capsule as it lands, but don’t worry: the flames are helping soften the landing and not a sign of bad news.
News that Baidu, the Google of China, cheated to take the lead in an international competition for artificial intelligence technology has caused a storm among computer science researchers. It has been called machine learning’s “first cheating scandal”.
This device can actually move liquid uphill without any external energy source – up to a height of one centimetre.
