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Plastic Microparticles Found In Beers
Contaminated brewski Examples of microplastic contaminations in German beers. White arrows indicate non-stained synthetic material. Courtesy of Gerd Liebezeita & Elisabeth Liebezeita/Taylor and...
View ArticleHow Bars Are Using High-Tech Equipment To Make Better Drinks
As cocktails in top bars become increasingly sophisticated, more work is required to perfect them, and much of that preparation now happens behind the scenes. Rather than infusing fruit into vodka in...
View ArticleWhat Happens To Your Body When You Get Drunk And Stoned At The Same Time?
The intoxicating effects of alcohol and of marijuana have been widely studied, but their combined effect—getting "cross-faded"—is woefully underexplored scientific territory. Here's a look at what we...
View ArticleWhat Drunk Prairie Voles Can Tell Us About Booze And Relationships
As any student of life can attest, alcohol can bring romantic pairs closer together, but it can also break them apart, by greasing the wheels of extra-partner dalliance.
View ArticleHow To Make Powdered Booze At Home
Some truths we rarely question. The sky is blue. The sun rises in the east. Cocktails are wet. But a new product, called Palcohol, aims to crumble our everyday…
View ArticleWhy Is There No Pill For 'Asian Glow'?
Between the two of us, my roommate and I have the, uhh, digestive problems that are more common in people of East Asian descent. She's lactose intolerant. I get so-called "…
View ArticleVideo: Palcohol Inventor Demonstrates His Powdered Booze
Since we heard about Palcohol, the infamous powdered alcohol -- and published our technique for making your own at home -- the product has come under fire. The label approval…
View ArticleDoes A Wine's 'Terroir' Really Matter? Study Says Yes
The word is pronounced, roughly, like "tear-rawr" and it's French. It means the conditions in which wine grapes grow—which vineyards they grow in, what kind of sunlight…
View ArticlePlastic Microparticles Found In Beers
Beer lovers: there may be more to your brew than dazzling citrus overtones or a subtle chocolatey aroma. The authors of a new study went to a local supermarket in Germany…
View ArticleCocktail Calculus Chart: The Inner Workings Of Recipes
Liquid Intelligence, a new book by (friend of Popular Science) Dave Arnold. The book is a canonical manual to a better way of understanding and making cocktails. "Think like a scientist and you will...
View ArticleYour Car Could Stop You From Driving If Your Voice Sounds Drunk
As any fan of Drunk History knows, people don’t exactly talk the same when they’re drunk. Now, some scientists are attempting to gather enough information to accurately predict a person’s drunkenness...
View ArticleThrow Wine In 3-D Re-Creation Of Ancient Greek Drinking Game
For the most part, people love a good drinking game. We've taught robots beer pong and we'll even watch celebrities play them on TV. So it really shouldn't be a surprise…
View ArticleWhat Does Shipwrecked 170-Year-Old Beer Taste Like?
Yo ho ho and a bottle of beer. Scientists in Finland have analyzed two different beers recovered from an 1840's shipwreck in the Baltic Sea to see if they could figure out…
View ArticlePopping The Cork On 170-Year-Old Shipwrecked Champagne
Losing a shipment of over 160 bottles champagne in the Baltic Sea must have been a huge blow to European importers back in the early 1800's. But their loss is definitely our gain. Discovered on the...
View ArticleDNA Test Detects Beer Gone Bad
People have brewed beer for thousands of years, but there are some things that brewers still don't have down to a science. Despite the best efforts of brewers everywhere,…
View ArticleA Computer Algorithm Can See When You’re Drunk
Oh, alcohol. It can be so much fun, until it makes you do something stupid. But even without doing anything embarrassing, booze makes us blush. Now it turns out those rosy…
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Brew Tang Clan: Can Rap Music Really Brew Better Beer?
Philadelphia’s Dock Street Brewery likes to drink their beer with music, and on a whim they decided to combine the two for a bit of an experiment. The team will pump house favorite Wu-Tang Clan’s...
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Prescription Pill Makes You Forget To Be Addicted To Drugs
Cocaine.DEA Drug Enforcement Agency via Wikimedia CommonsAddiction is more complex than a chemical need for a particular substance—it’s a conjunction of circumstantial and social cues that remind an...
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A Team Of MIT Bartender Robots Serves Beer More Efficiently
Bartending RobotScreenshot by author, from YouTubeUsing robots, a team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has solved an ancient problem: needing another beer but not...
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