Category: Science

In the part of Mote Marine that visitors see, three-foot-long bonnethead sharks show off in a multi-windowed tank. In a nearby shallow pool, Atlantic stingrays, whose barbs have been snipped to make them safe enough for a toddler to touch, circle endlessly. Beyond the employees-only door, research scientists headed by Carl A. Luer have spent…

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Disgorging is part of the traditional method for either sparkling wine or Champagne where you remove the yeast sediment. After the second fermentation, the wine rests on lees (dead yeast cells.) In most wineries, the yeast cells are disgorged, generally by freezing the yeast plug and removing it, before final corking and caging. But Movia…