Alcohol

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

As global population continues to grow, managing the relationships between water, food and energy is becoming increasingly critical. Businesses need to react to the challenge and be mindful of the important role they play in implementing solutions.

Palcohol could give new meaning to the phrase “dry martini"

Can science help defeat the physical aftereffects of drinking too much alcohol—if not the regrets?

Developing a hangover doesn't prevent or even significantly delay the next drinking bout. Sophie Bushwick reports 

 

Superstar wine critic Robert Parker’s legacy—a zinfandel with 17 percent alcohol?

I’m doing a monthly series here at Food Matters that I’m calling “Friday* Happy Hour,” in which I’ll delve into the science of alcohol production.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , over 50% of adults over the age of 18 had at least one alcoholic drink per month in 2010.

Today we present the 2013 IgNobel Prize in Psychology! I’m sure we’ve all been there. You go out, and you think at first you look ok.

A new study in rats suggests that alcohol abuse in adolescents could lead to impaired decision-making in adulthood

Scientists may have hit on a way to diminish heart attack toll as well as stave off effects of Alzheimer's and other ills

Although some tales have proved apocryphal, at least one Malaysian shrew likes to quaff brew