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?
Before astronauts fly up to the International Space Station, they have to know how to deal with different scenarios. We got a look into the VR workshop where they get their incredible tutoring.
In Filton, Gloucestershire, a lab handles UK blood donations, identifying super-rare 'golden' blood.
A team from UK wants to crowdfund a trip to the moon. Shown above is one of their diagrams. Altogether they want to raise half a billion quid. Yep: billion. But first they're only looking for £600k. Will you help?
Striking new video shows the circuits that light up when mice experience fear or addiction.
"Atomtronic circuits" are made of super-cold quantum matter that can potentially be reconfigured on the fly.
It seems like some lost part from a Celestial designed by Jack Kirby.
Chamber A at Johnson Space Center in Houston is a marvel of engineering, cleanliness, and design. It's also the closest you can come to being in space without strapping into a rocket.
Leave out a bowl of tomatoes and sugar for a week, one will end up with black spots and the other will be fine. Why is that?
You can watch how a new moon might form if something big enough smashed into Earth. Spoiler: it causes quite a mess.
Wembley's new favourite sport has suffered 69 concussions this year already. Luckily, one neurobiologist has a plan.
America has currently no plan for its nuclear waste. It did, however, at one point, have a supremely ambitious plan to bury it in a mountain for 10,000 years.
Before the Rosetta mission's lander ran out of battery life due to a borked landing, scientists scrambled to gather as much comet data as possible. If we're lucky it isn't completely dead.
Philae has confirmed that the first ever drilling of a comet has happened! What is it going to find? Perhaps the building blocks of life?
DNA memory is analogue, not digital.
There's more to Wikipedia than meets the eye.
We've seen it used to transmit data over fibre-optic cables, but Italian scientists wanted to see if it would work through the air.
