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High-Tech Bottle Keeps Opened Wine Fresh for Weeks By   tunex wizard, Live Science Contributor   |   May 11, 2016 11:57am ET ·          MORE Kuvée says its "smart" wine bottle can keep your favorite vintage fresh for up to 30 days. Credit: Kuvée Many people enjoy an occasional glass of wine with dinner, but after a glass or two, what do you do with the rest of the bottle? Once opened, wine immediately begins to react with the air and spoil, so how can you avoid ruining your favorite vintage? Now, a company called Kuvée has designed a device that it says can   keep wine fresh   for up to 30 days, and perhaps even longer. What makes opened wine taste bad after just a few days? The culprit is oxygen, scientists say. As soon as you pull out a cork, air floods the bottle, displacing the gas that was trapped inside. Fresh air contains oxygen that is absorbed by the wine over the next few days. Oxygen r...

Virgin Galactic will unveil its new SpaceShipTwo today VIRGIN GALACTIC 19 FEBRUARY 16  by  JAMES TEMPERTON SpaceShipTwo serial number two will be carried to 50,000 feet by the White Knight Two "mothership" (pictured) before blasting itself to the edge of space John Francis Peters Virgin Galactic  will unveil the latest version of its SpaceShipTwo  spacecraft  later today, 18 months after a pilot was killed when the  previous model exploded . Company founder Richard Branson said the new spaceship looked "beautiful" and was the result of 700 engineers working "day and night" for 15 months. "We've got some wonderful surprises later on today," he told ITV's  Good Morning Britain . Branson will unveil the new SpaceShipTwo at the company's spaceport in the Mojave Desert, California later today. The six-passenger craft will carry six passengers on a five-minute journey into suborbital  space , reachin...