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?
At Blood Falls, Antarctica, deep red iron-rich water oozes out of a glacier. It’s dramatic and unmissable on its own, but Blood Falls has always hinted at some greater hidden thing: a vast subterranean network of briny waters, which scientists have just started to map. Read more >>
Read on to find out what happened when E O Wilson and Sean Carroll — two giants in their field — sat down to discuss the future of our globe.
The Flood Theory is full of holes, but Christians and secularists alike have known this since before Darwin wrote a word about evolution.
Researchers at University College London put rechargeable cells through some extremes to test these batteries' limits.
Nikon’s Small World in Motion Competition rounds up the best microscopic videos from scientists across the world. The results are strange but beautiful.
When gas erupts out of the Sun, it almost look as though it has an enormous mountain range made of fire. Read More >>
If you’re ever feeling crappy about not getting recognition for your work, just remember that even Carl Sagan got looked down on by some of his scientific colleagues.
It sounds daft, but even the scientists who wrote the paper were sceptical at first.
Let's just hope the University of Leicester doesn't put its research thesis into action.
Researchers have been able to recreate the natural aroma of loved ones once they’ve passed away, allowing them to live on. In our noses.
If you’ve ever felt like your life’s turned on its head, be thankful that you’re not this little embryo—which turns itself inside out.
The errant heavenly bodies are screaming across intergalactic space at up to 6,000,000 miles per hour.
This picture shows SpaceX preparing its Falcon 9 rocket for launch at Cape Canaveral later today. If all goes well — and currently there’s a 60 per cent chance of favourable weather — the launch will take place during a 90-minute window which starts at 22:14 GMT. Read more >
Most iceberg-forming videos show the violence of glaciers calving, the groaning as thousands of tonnes of ice tip into the sea. But this sequence of photos from NASA’s satellites reveal a far more stately process: the birth of a 17-mile iceberg. Read more >
The number of exoplanets that might harbour alien life grows every year. But astronomers now think we can check one of science fiction’s most beloved staples off the list.
When it comes to life-and-death predictions of agriculture in Africa, systems are woefully inadequate and the only hope is space.
