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Hi, I'm Tanya Lewis, Scientific American's assistant news editor.

And I'm Andrea Garleski, the collections editor at Scientific American.

And on this episode of Science Talk, we talk about some of the stories we've loved from this

month's issue in the section called Advances.

Tanya, just for our new listeners, can you explain what the advances are?

Sure. So, Adv advances is basically the front

of the book news section where we review the latest discoveries and new technologies. And today

we're going to be talking about a couple stories in the December issue. One is called Rolling

Octopuses by Rachel Neuer. And the other one's called Catching Whiskey Fakers by Lucas

Lawerson.

The opener story is about how scientists are kind of determining new ways to detect whiskey fraud,

which is apparently a big problem that a lot of spirit makers have to deal with where basically counterfeit whiskey.

Exactly.

This is a disaster.

Yeah, I know, especially for the whiskey makers because they're trying to sell these high-end

products.

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