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  • Prof. Uwe Bunz (left) and doctoral student Jinsong Han, with a selection of glowing polymer dyes
    Science
    Synthetic tongue tastes whiskies to tell which is which
    ​Different types of whiskies can be chemically very similar, to the point that standard tests sometimes can't tell them apart. With that in mind, researchers have developed what's being described as a synthetic tongue – it scientifically differentiates between whiskies via their "flavor."