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?
I think of the Eggman, a brief case report from 1991 in the New England Journal of Medicine, whenever "news" of cholesterol's unsuitability as a one-size-fits-all biomarker resurfaces.
Created by university researchers, this is by no mean normal origami.
We still don't live in a world of robot butlers and Skynet, but it's still been an interesting story getting here.
This radical notions involves aeroponics, a method originally developed by NASA to grow food in space.
Each state determines its own workers' compensation benefits, which means workers in neighbouring states can end up with dramatically different compensation for identical injuries.
Could this be bye bye to the plaster?
We might finally now find out what happened to Schrödinger's cat.
For the forces of good, that is. These robo-critters could be used to search for bodies in collapsed building and the like.
Since 1987, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been counting up each country's nuclear arsenal in a Nuclear Notebook, which it's now turned into this interactive graphic. Read more >
Welcome to the labs that are designed for disaster, cataclysms, accidents and giant balls of fire.
Two innovative companies join forces to create a genetically modified yeast that makes the rose oil used in perfumes.
A few years ago, the water suddenly disappeared from a subglacial lake in Greenland, and it collapsed into a funny silhouette that NASA likens to a "mitten", but I think looks more like a waving Yeti. Read More >>
The City of the Monkey God. La Ciudad Blanca, or The White City. All names for the civilisation now discovered in the depths of the rainforest.
Compound structures within the insects' ocular faculties could make solar panels better and holding onto the light they capture.
Who knew plankton were so incredibly interesting?
And we mean exactly.
