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?
Dairy farmers routinely feed their cows finger-sized magnets that settle in their digestive tracts to help keep them healthy. This is not bizarre homeopathy, but a legitimate treatment for a stomach-churning ailment called "hardware disease".
Researchers have finally identified a thin layer of deformable nanocyrstals in their skin which gives rise the phenomenon.
With a scrap of aluminium for fuel, it will run independently for around an hour.
Cambridge University researchers use Hubble telescope to find an incredible nine new galaxies bordering the Milky Way.
The world-famous particle accelerator plays host to Symmetry, a dance and opera film based on groundbreaking experiments that the LHC performs.
The 8,000-year-old Chilean mummies are rapidly degrading into "ooze", but scientists think they know why.
The Mars-bound marvel will have its first major ground test today at 15:00 GMT.
Psychologists asked 85 students to draw the iPhone maker's symbol from memory and the results were… interesting.
It's been shown that your pooch can give established scientific tests a run for their money.
Mixing petroleum and oxygen isn't the only way to generate the energy needed to propel a craft. In fact, sometimes it's the least efficacious choice.
The standardised phrases are used to test everything from mobile phones to VoIP. We owe them.
They're among our most awe-inspiring creatures, but we'd never want the world's deadliest animals too close to home. But new scientific evidence suggests that we need them far more than we realised.
Timelapse video shows the break-neck speed at which the thing went up – up to three floors per day.
Rapid urbanisation poses an enormous threat to the existence of trees, but there is a movement to make sure they are here for many more years to come.
A mix of microfluidics and biological cells makes a more efficient device for testing drug toxicity.
Patents reveal that Jony Ive's mastering of metallurgy is well 'ard, innit.
