Looking for Alien Life on Bizarre "Eyeball Planets"
Planets that are half frozen, half broiling with the heat of their suns,and we shouldn't rule these bizarre planets out from our search for life.
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?
Planets that are half frozen, half broiling with the heat of their suns,and we shouldn't rule these bizarre planets out from our search for life.
Rashes aren't just a Fitbit problem—any wristband can leave you red, thanks to some basic biology. There may be no miracle cure for this malady of the quantified self.
When Curiosity goes looking for organic molecules, it vaporises a rock sample and sniffs the gas that comes out. The plan could be going awry thanks to a pesky little mineral called jarosite.
Human flesh is opaque. Well, forget that: scientists now can use light to see inside objects that were traditionally off-limits to the human eye—including our bodies.
In this artist's recreation, you can see cosmic winds howling out of supermassive black hole PDS 456. These winds are so strong that they prevent the galaxy from forming new stars. Read More >>
If you want a little disaster porn this morning, you can watch this How Stuff Works podcast about possible causes of the five mass extinctions that nearly extinguished all life on Earth.
All hail the physical interaction of light.
The many space agencies of Earth have sent out a number of probes over the years to explore our solar system and beyond. Spaceprob.es is a stylishly minimalist Haynes manual to all of them.
Ageing, unpopular Li-ion batteries could be given new lease of life by some engineers, and make them attractive once more.
Following yesterday's reports, the University of Massachusetts backs down and will now admit Iranian students, seemingly in reaction to press coverage.
A writer went in search of the beginnings of Peter Savile's iconic artwork, and found it in a 1970 PhD astronomy thesis.
This video from Nature explains with beautiful clarity the system that activity, turning genes on and off. It's called the epigenome, and it's incredibly important.
The Washington Monument in the US has stood tall and powerful since 1848, but only now has the obelisk's size been confirmed.
The legal battles to commercialise off-world rocks are making us the stars of our very own space western.
Unclear sanctions see it make like Kaplan in the UK.
Mmm, beaver arse and squashed insect scales, our favourite.
