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When we were in high school in the late 1960s, my brother developed an inexplicable enthusiasm for the music of the Hawaiian nightclub performer Don Ho, who had achieved a certain celebrity by ...

Tiny bubbles of gas — less than a micrometre in size — could spawn a multi-billion-dollar industry, by transforming the normal characteristics of water and other liquids, making them potentially ...