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We gadget freaks obsess over gear, big and small: cameras, phones, notebooks, desktops, home theater speakers, HDTVs, and much more. But how often do we pay attention to the technology surrounding our gear, the packing material that keeps it safe?

Did you hear about the one with the long-bearded Charlton Heston-lookalike who chats with flaming bushes and uses his big honking stick to part the waters of entire seas? Well, scientists have found how the water-parting may actually have happened.

The fact is that astronauts’ taste buds get numb in space, which is why some of them drown their food in hot sauce. Beer is no different. In fact, it’s even worse. It tastes bland and, since there is no gravity, the carbonated gas can’t escape the astronauts body.

An English graduate has won this year’s James Dyson Award, which is a coveted design award in the UK. Taking on the noble challenge of finding a cure for water sterilization, Timothy Whitehead’s bottle cleans water in just 2mins flat.

Find out how a particle accelerator will be used to make rare isotopes used for nuclear medicine.

Technetium 99m sounds like something in a bad fifties science fiction film that would be injected into someone to give them psychic powers, or twelve hours, or both.