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 intriguing image shows what a blood clot looks like if you zoom right in. The best bit? The image is entitled The Clot Thickens. It is the winner of an annual competition held by British Heart Foundation. Read more >
What do art and high-energy physics have in common? Quite a bit, if you think about it: Space, time, and the structure of the visible and invisible world, for starters.
It sounds like research that doesn't have much more of a practical application than making people say "cool," but it has serious practical implications.
Team of physicists seemingly breaks Newton's laws of motion. Though Einstein has something to say about it, too.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published an amazing photo set showing us the smallest marine creatures living in our planet's seas and oceans. They look like Hubble photos of nebulas and stars. See more >
It's all to do with how large quantities of snow reacts to light.
Current estimates suggest a third of the world's gorillas and chimpanzees have died from Ebola since the 1990s.
Normally, when doctors are trying to look at whether an individual is at risk of heart disease, they'll look at classic indicators of health. But according to study, they might be better off taking a look at their tweets.
A letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine claims that vapour produced by electronic cigarettes contains a high concentration of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen. But don't panic quite yet.
If it really came down to it, and you did have to defend yourself against an interstellar attacker, would a traditional gun actually be able to do the trick? Let's gaze at the idea, and crunch some numbers to find out.
My brain just plainly refuses to believe any of this. Hulk head hurt. Hulk smash atoms. Oops, Hulk make nuclear detonation.
The superhero of Dronedom, it's designed for rescuing victims in dangerous places after a natural disaster.
Who gave this telescope a lightsaber? Just kidding: this is, of course, the ESA's Optical Ground Station telescope in Tenerife, in the process of laser-tagging the International Space Station to establish a data connection. Read More >
All that remains, now, is for them to agree on the cause and save the world.
We aren't just made of stars, we act like them too.
Scientists from University of Rochester create material so water-repellant that it makes the liquid act in a way you have never seen before.
