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?
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.
It also charges incredibly quickly and can survive 10,000 recharge cycles.
It sounds bizarre, but fungi better known as mushrooms can help solve many of society’s greatest challenges, from cleaning up the environment and living more sustainability to colonising other planets.
Over time, most things lose their luster—like these ancient seashells. But now, scientists are able to glimpse what the now-white shells looked like in their prime using UV light. Read More >>
After millions of years of evolution, your feet are still not perfectly energy efficient. Enter exoskeletons.
It's expensive and, perhaps most importantly, it's potentially dangerous.
Them there internet folk think they are sooooo clever.
The medicine fed to the bovine creatures is making its way out of the farm and into the air.
Chinese researchers use 3D scanners to measure differences in facial features with age.
This microscopic image of bacteria is not actually a microscopic image of bacteria. It is in fact a large hand-cut work of art that took four months to painstakingly create. See more >
The water used in chicken production is just one invitation for nasty bacteria to proliferate.
