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The Orion spacecraft may have taken less than five hours to fly into space and back, but it will take a fortnight for it to return to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, so Lockheed Martin, builder of the capsule, is conducting tests on the fly.

The Bloodhound Supersonic Car group, along with its partner, the Norwegian/Finnish aerospace and defense group, Nammo, announce that they've successfully tested a large hybrid solid/liquid rocket engine at Nammo's test facility in Norway.

Using a quadrillion watt laser, Berkeley lab researchers have produced a world-record 4.25 giga-electron volts energy acceleration using their tabletop-size laser-plasma particle accelerator.

Chemists at MIT have been working on a wireless, inexpensive sensor that, among other things, identifies spoiled food early by detecting gases in the air. It then shares its data with a smartphone, potentially alerting users to that soon-to-be moldy fruit in the bottom of the fridge.

We may get as much as 250 years advance warning of the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation that drives a large component of the global climate. Such a collapse would trigger cooling in the North Atlantic region and encourage drought in central Africa.

Goldgenie's team of undeniably talented artisans have taken what appears to be a Giant Defy 3 aluminum framed road bike (RRP US$1049) and gold plated more or less the whole damn thing, from the tips of the handlebars, to the spokes, to the derailleur, chain and every single cog on the gear clusters.

The Varidesk Pro Plus costs just US$350, fits two monitors, has a separate lower level for your keyboard and mouse, and quickly adjusts from sitting to standing position with spring-loaded ease. We've just picked up half a dozen for the Gizmag office.

Connecting computers and mobile devices to a home hi-fi can mean either trailing wires across a room or buying expensive pieces of streaming kit. The Gramofon, however, lets you stream Spotify wirelessly to a non-wireless sound system. Gizmag pressed play and took a look.

A study by IBM has revealed that many discarded laptop batteries have the potential to provide enough power to keep the lights running in homes in poorer countries. The team conducted a study to test the viability of the idea, with work now focused on streamlining a prototype system.

To make mid-morning snacks a bit less harrowing, scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute have studied the white film that sometimes forms on chocolate and have come up with the answer for how to prevent it.

Playing back recorded video of string picking in super slow motion can help when trying to nail minor technique problems, but mounting a weighty camcorder to a guitar is not really very practical. The Magnet allows a smartphone to be attached to a guitar to record and playback up close footage.

Do you want a moderne-style grandfather clock and a high-tech watch display with built-in winder safe, but don't have room for both? Then consider the Grande Infinity from Buben & Zorweg, which combines a precision pendulum-movement clock with a state-of-the-art display case and safe.