A few distillers are trying to figure out how important water is to their spirits.
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Booze’s Secret Ingredient? Water
NASA Successfully Tests Engine For Future Mars Mission
An engine that will help propel NASA's Orion spacecraft toward its deep-space missions underwent a test today.
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What China’s Huge Tianjin Explosion Looked Like From Space
Three Japanese satellites saw the Chinese port explosion happen from space.
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Don’t Try This at Home: Scientists Brew Opiates With Yeast
If pharma has it their way, they'll soon be making commercial opiate drugs with little more than yeast and sugar.
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America’s Next Best Weather Satellite? Japan Already Has It
Japan's new, awesome weather satellite is American-designed and American-made.
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Ants Are Really Good at Sniffing Out Enemies—Literally
New research shows just how adept ants are at sniffing the hydrocarbons of their friends—and enemies.
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America Is Frying the Planet With Its Corn Fields
Scientists have been undercounting nitrous oxide emission in the Corn Belt by about 25 gigagrams annually.
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The Way We Measure Earthquakes Is Stupid
Charles Richter made a huge mess of the way that seismologists measure the strength of a quake, and it's making our lives hell.
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Amazing Livestream Takes You Inside a Baby Hummingbird Nest
The University of Arizona is currently home to two baby hummingbirds named Jack and Jill. Watch them live here.
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What’s Up With the Quakes Before a Volcano Erupts?
Whenever a volcano acts up, earthquakes are one of the first signs. Why do earthquakes happen under volcanoes anyway?
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