The Most Ridiculous Health and Wellness Fads of the Decade
From vampire facials to vaginal steaming, the weird, nonsensical and downright harmful fads we're glad to leave behind.
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?
From vampire facials to vaginal steaming, the weird, nonsensical and downright harmful fads we're glad to leave behind.
The jettisoned spacecraft reached a height of 4,500 feet, followed by the deployment of its parachutes and a safe landing on the desert floor.
It’s disconcerting to know this paper passed peer review in its current form.
We asked the leading experts for their insights on where placebos get their power.
We owe these gorgeous first light images from the eROSITA telescope to the dramatic failings of its predecessor.
Instead of viewing them with disgust, we should be thanking these birds for their services.
We won't spoil the outcome, but hope you enjoy the ride and "juice" jokes.
Instead of digging up stone tools and busted pottery, archaeologists are recreating many of these items to test assumptions about the ancient past.
Detonations here on Earth could improve our greater understanding of the cosmos.
Part of what makes these products so alluring is that there’s a grain of truth to them.
These new insights into AI could be applied elsewhere to help systems solve complex, real-world problems.
Using satellites and ground stations, scientists have documented an epic lightning flash from 2017 that zipped above three states in the Southwest US.
These half centimetre-sized spiny creatures seem to swarm their host, with hundreds living in the shark that researchers found.
Here’s an opportunity for charitable scientific enthusiasts: photograph your poo today in order to help train artificial intelligence.
In reality, it's a galactic collision of epic proportions.
The real science behind a spooky phenomenon.
