Watch the Remote-Controlled Flight of a Cyborg Moth
Implanted electrodes can actually be used to control the flight of moths. That's scary and cool at the same time.
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?
Implanted electrodes can actually be used to control the flight of moths. That's scary and cool at the same time.
Blackfish exposes some of the behind-the-scenes practices at SeaWorld that very few people knew about. If you haven't seen it, you probably should.
All thanks to hard, irrefutable, science.
It's the first time it's been done at such a low voltage.
The research is still in its early stages so, for now, ketchup still needs its beauty sleep.
People that know about quantum mechanics tend to talk about it very breezily, leaving us mortals behind. Be left behind no longer, by watching this video.
What if we could simply program our genes to regrow human limbs as easily as lizards regrow lost tails? Well, scientists are getting closer to that fantastic future.
If you thought that the depletion of the ozone layer was a problem confined to the '90s, think again.
No this isn't an extract from a vampire novel, this is real science.
The idea of a completely transparent solar panel has always been a bit of a dream. Well, guess what? That dream is becoming a reality.
Identifying anonymous bodies that have been dead for decades might seem like a futile effort, but its actually working.
This critter's exterior can reflect more light than anything of a similar thickness that can be made by humans.
Scientists say that this ability to actually see the cancer cells advance will be useful to figure out how to stop them once and for all.
That wacky Center for Disease Control (CDC) is up to its old, potentially fatal-virus-spreading tricks again.
The toxins that leak out of land mines are deadly to plants, so dying plants are a perfect indicator of whether there are mines around.
There is nothing here other than clips of spinning tops. Don't say we didn't warn you.
