Robotic "Fish" Will Save Salmon from Damnation
Hydroelectric dams are great for energy, bad for migrating fish who can be dam-destroyed. A new sensor seeks to change that.
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?
Hydroelectric dams are great for energy, bad for migrating fish who can be dam-destroyed. A new sensor seeks to change that.
Behind every shadow, poltergeist, and disembodied voice, there's a perfectly rational explanation.
Scientists have discovered that a certain species of bat can purposely jam the sonar of others to keep rivals away from their insect prey.
Ghosts were felt by people who had their brains messed with by a time-delayed robot finger.
Miniature grenades? Fishing lures? Broken screws? Nope: these are in fact a new kind of medical implant that could help your ruptured tendons recover.
Well, technically anyway. And if time-travel does ever happen, this is how it will go down – according to the best theories science can offer.
Blame Yvette Fielding.
File under disgusting/interesting.
Although extremely rare, some people actually have ruptured their stomachs after eating too much. Unsurprisingly, many did not survive.
Ever wondered what the destruction of the Milky Way might look like? The Simulating Extreme Spacetimes project reckon it's come up with the answer. Click through to see this thing in action.
That's four-hundred million gigabytes of information.
Watch this video and learn why you should definitely not eat those little packets of silica gel that come with shoes and the like.
This technique called "Linguistic Text Analysis" is based on the difference between how we structure sentences in invented and true stories.
The fuzziest, most adorable Big Brother you ever did see.
Influenza kills more people each year than Ebola ever has, but that doesn't automatically make it scarier. Lets have a look at the scary diseases and try and rank them.
Apparently, using peoples' neurotic self-diagnoses isn't the most accurate way to track disease.
