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?
45 per cent of people featured in memes are white, according to an exhaustive US study of, erm, 50 widely shared internet japes. That's more diverse than the population of the country where the research was carried out, though.
Anyone who’s ever dropped an ice cream knows that ants love sugar. But for ants that live on city streets and pavements, junk food may be a matter of survival.
Volcanoes are often painted as harbingers of destruction—and for good reason. But sometimes, they can help life survive, by feeding energy-starved ecosystems elemental carbon.
For many of us, purchasing an electric vehicle is still a pie in the sky dream. But that might be changing soon, if a new peer-reviewed study is correct.
It only takes a little chemical tuning to turn chlorophyll—the light-absorbing pigment that colours plants green—blue, red, orange, or any other hue under the sun.
It could easily be a pulsar star, an unmapped spy satellite, phone towers, or maybe the pattern just doesn't exist.
Exactly half a century ago this week, a rocket shot off from the California coast. It carried the US’s first and only (known) space nuclear reactor, SNAP-10A.
Looking at avalanches falling down mountains can only tell you so much. At Montana State University’s “subzero lab,” scientists are studying how avalanches happen by recreating them flake by flake.
There are numerous conditions, disorders, and illnesses that either limit or preventsleep. Many of them are quite dangerous, but none of them are as frightening or rare as fatal familial insomnia.
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has built a new needle-like robot that can descend through ice-fields to explore the sea floor beneath —and this is the first footage it’s returned.
Rresearchers from the University of New South Wales have been borrowing the algorithms used to create large, explorable depictions of human tissue, right down to the individual cell.
The US's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 243 people across 32 US states and Puerto Rico have presented with a drug-resistant form of the disease.
Eyedrops with a chlorophyll analogue called chlorin e6 seemed to induce temporary night vision. There are also some creeptastic sci-fi looking photos to boot.
NASA is fascinated by the prospect of microbial life elsewhere in the universe, but there's still tonnes we don't know about our own planet—and cosmic dust is one of those mysteries.
It'll all be mechanical as well, so no apps or special software required.
It could one day be a new way to navigate for blind people–or heck, even healthy people hankering for a sixth sense.
