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The Guardian : Going booze-free? The effects of a month without alcohol With the start of another new year, people are once again sweari...

Photo courtesy of www.somethingyoushouldread.com The Guardian: There is no such thing as a safe level of alcohol consumption The ide...

Moonshining Former moonshiner John Bowman (right), explaining the ins and outs of a proper moonshine still. via Wikimedia FYI: Can Drinking ...

The tongue tastes the bitterness in gin and tonic more intensely when it's cold, researchers have found (Source: jonathansloane/iStockph...

Men who drank the equivalent of two pints of beer answered 40 per cent more test questions correctly. Photo: REUTERS Alcohol Sharpens The Mi...

Photo: The unmatured whisky was mixed with charred oak on board the space station to see how low gravity affected the maturation process Wh...

Jodi Cobb / National Geographic Creative / Getty Image From Time Magazine: One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about a...

The best drink for keeping the pounds off was red wine, but all four types of tipple included in the study -- red or white wine, beer and sp...

From BBC: US scientists have shown what they say is a direct link between the number of shops selling alcohol in an area and the violence oc...

ARS chemist Mark Schmitt is discovering what happens -- biochemically -- inside malting barley grains as they sprout, so that plant breeders...

Red in the face. An Asian man having an alcohol flush reaction. Credit: Wikipedia From Science Magazine: If your face turns red after drinki...

Patrick McGovern in his laboratory, examining and "sniffing" out a 3,000-year-old millet wine, which was preserved inside a tightl...

Mixing up a scientific taste sensation (Image: Staff Hood Gamma) From New Scientist: IT WOULD be lovely to have access to chromatography,...

From The Telegraph: An alcohol substitute that mimics its pleasant buzz without leading to drunkenness and hangovers is being developed by s...

Overall, bourbon drinkers reported feeling worse than vodka drinkers, rating higher on scales that measure the severity of hangover malaise....

From Wired Science: A new study may help drinkers pick their poison. In a head-to-head comparison, bourbon gave drinkers a more severe hango...

From The BBC: Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests. The Spanish res...

From The New Scientist: QUESTS don't come much more appealing than this. But while for most people the quest ends in the nearest bar, bi...

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) breeding in a test tube. (Credit: iStockphoto/Joe Pogliano) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Nov. 7,...

From Slate: I'm hosting a dinner party next week, and I'll be serving both beer and wine alongside the meal. But it got me wondering...