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  Powerful Ideas: Beer Waste Makes Fuel

  After beer is made, the waste from breweries could help generate power, researchers now suggest.

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  Scotch Goes Green

  Scotch distillers pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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  How Alcohol Changes the Brain ... Quickly

  The brain begins to run on the sugar in alcohol instead of using glucose.

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  The Great Shampoo Sham

  There's a movement afoot called the no-poo movement advocating for the end of shampooing.

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  American Diets Getting Worse

  Even fewer Americans in their middle and later years adhere to this healthy lifestyle advice than they did two decades ago.

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  Taxing Bad Behavior

  Congress is looking at a range of sin taxes.

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  Wine and Beer May be Good for Your Bones

  A glass of wine or a bottle or two of beer a day may strengthen the bones of older men and women.

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  Fuel and Fun from Programmed Microbes

  To brew fuel in beer vats, the new field of synthetic biology programs the genetic code of yeast the way you would program a computer -- one gene at a time.

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  Divorce Makes Women Look Older

  Being divorced is one of several factors now found to add years to a woman's face.

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  Scientists No Closer to Curing Hangovers

  Hangover cures vary worldwide, from tripe soup in Mexico, vitamin concoctions in America, and pickle juice in Poland, connected by one fact: They don't really work.

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  The Carbon Footprint of Wine

  Bulk of wine's carbon footprint comes through transportation methods.

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  People Really Do Look Better When You Drink

  For the first time, scientists have proven that "beer goggles" are real — other people really do look more attractive to us if we have been drinking.

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  Tree Shrew Sober Despite Drinking All Day

  Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrews drink more alcohol than fratboys, yet don't seem to get drunk.

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  Absinthe's Mind-Altering Mystery Solved

  A new analysis could end the controversy over absinthe's ingredient.

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  Is There a Hangover Cure?

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  What is Heat Stroke?

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  How Does the 'Date Rape' Drug Work?

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  Why Do Drunks Get Belligerent?

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  Does the 'Freshman 15' Exist?

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