The First Detailed Image of the World's Smallest Known Life-form
This picture might look a little grainy, but this bacterium is believed to be "about as small as life can get."
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?
This picture might look a little grainy, but this bacterium is believed to be "about as small as life can get."
Change is on the way, shifting the negative images of disability and sexuality that still dominate society's attitudes. But with it comes new controversies.
The lengthy investigation has come up with hard numerical answers.
What you're looking at here is a major breakthrough. The image reveals a property of light that has never been witnessed before by human eyes – light behaving as a wave and a particle at the same time. Read more >
How do you feel about having results served to you based on the Truth According to Google?
"Siri, do I have halitosis?"
University art professor John Sabraw and civil engineer Guy Riefler have joined forces and devised a method for extracting iron oxide metals from industrial waste. These extracts can then be turned into vibrant pigments and used to create stunning works of art. Read more >
Well it is 2015, so it had to turn up at some point in the next 10 months. Even if it isn't actually fusion.
Think they're housed in heavily-guarded, white coat-manned labs? Nah, they're just in a small cupboard in the West Country.
In three months, it goes from a spry, young fish (left) to a decrepit, old one (right). For scientists who study ageing, the turquoise killifish could be the key to their future experiments.
Well, it's one good thing to say for a nuclear meltdown, we guess.
Just don't take this thing into the casino.
This is crucial for the next time you need to drive your car at warp speeds.
This beautiful piece of shiny scientific instrumentation is a brand new class X-ray microscope sitting inside a vacuum chamber at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. Things have certainly changed since we were at school. Read more >
Overnight a simple garment broke the internet. Black and blue? White and gold? Let us settle it for you, with a little help from our old friend science.
The seemingly unprofitable and pointless habit of gnats to hover in a cloud is, in fact, the single most productive thing they'll ever do with their short lives.
