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    Your recent article on the exact nature of bubbles in beer and other beverages keyed an old memory. In Cleveland, during Christmas, one brewery used to bring out its holiday oddity for sale. They billed it as “the pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom . . . and the top!” There really […]

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  2. Physics

    The Physics of Fizz

    Toasting a burst of discovery about bubbles in champagne and beer.

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  3. Ah, my pretty, you’re…#&! a beetle pile!

    Hundreds of tiny, young blister beetles cluster into lumps resembling female bees and hitchhike on the male bees that they seduce.

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  4. Tech

    Civilians get better GPS

    President Clinton directed the Defense Department to stop degrading signals from 24 Global Positioning System satellites, allowing civilians to receive the same location-pinpointing accuracy long available to the U.S.