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A worker checks the jars used to contain rice wine at Shaoxing Nuerhong Winery Company in Shaoxing, east China's Zhejiang Province. The company maintains its traditional rice wine brewing method, which is composed of nearly 20 processing steps.

Humans

Early farmers liked alcohol so much they invented two ways to brew it

Residues on pottery from two 7000-year-old sites in China suggest early farmers developed two different ways to brew alcoholic drinks

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Allergies are more common in young children

Health

Gut microbes may determine whether infants develop food allergies

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Fishmeal

Technology

Turning CO2 into animal feed could make it greener for us to eat meat

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Azeem Azhar

Technology

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Culture

Life

Working hypothesis: From space deliveries to dirty money

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vines planted in volcanic hollows

Environment

Vineyards sit in moon-like craters on a volcano in Lanzarote

Regulars

Protein mania: The problem with the West’s latest diet obsession

Health

Protein mania: The problem with the West’s latest diet obsession

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children eating

Life

Strange rise of mukbang parents who feed their kids fast food for cash

Features

Alien film pic

Technology

Don't miss: Corporate sabotage, Alien restored and our bionic future

Culture

meat in Petri dish

Environment

Meat in a dish could be bad for the planet

Lab-grown meat may be worse for the environment than farming cattle for food in the long run, despite doing away with methane-producing cattle

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Health

Cheese needs more scrutiny for its welfare and environmental impacts

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Environment

The truth about cheese: The terrible costs of our favourite food

Features

Environment

Climate change is making it harder to grow fruit and vegetables

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Obesity - who is to blame?

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