Large Hadron Collider Restarting in March 2015
Accelerating particles for science again.
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?
Accelerating particles for science again.
It's Christmas party season, that perfect storm of open bar and all of your colleagues waiting to see who will be this year's obnoxious, puking, passed out and/or dead person at the party. Don't be that guy.
We've had this technology the whole time! The. Whole. Time.
Tweens these days probably don't really have the same attention span as children of the '90s, so here's the great man himself, explaining evolution in 90 seconds
UV vision? Eyeballs that zoom in and out like a camera lens? It's coming!
The simple answer is probably not. That's because the sun involves a special type of fire that is able to "burn" water, and so it will just get hotter and six times brighter. Here's why.
They're hiding in plain sight, Captain!
Asteroids, not comets, scientists reckon.
Why is brain-eating idea so intrinsically linked with zombies and where did it come from? Read on to find out
Skin is complicated. It's our body's largest organ, one that ostensibly senses touch — but also temperature, pain, wetness, itching, and more. A new, stretchy artificial skin, seen above, can pick up many of the sensations from the real thing, and it could someday cover a life-like prosthetic hand.
The internet giant's online human-genome database is proving a boon to doctors hunting answers to questions on how diseases come about.
Last month, the ESA landed on a comet 300 million miles away to take samples that could help unravel our solar system's origins. It turns out there are pieces of comets closer to home, too – with fragments found in Antarctica.
Award-winning video shows the variety of crater formations caused by falling rain.
Some people seriously think that the Earth is flat. No one can save them. Luckily if they were right we would all be unable to swim off the edge
On Friday Digital Einstein went live, bringing with it a treasure trove of Einstein letters, correspondences, postcards, and notes detailing the life of one of the world's greatest thinkers.
In the spirit of making problems go away, sometimes you want to just launch a particular person/problem into the sun. So—could you? And just how big would the canon need to be?
