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Human noses: Quantum smelling devices

2013-01-31 17:50:05| Extremetech

Current theories have been unable to account our ability to perceive a seemingly infinite variety of new smells from a limited repertoire of receptors. A perfumer and biophysicist named Luca Turin, has over the last two decades, pieced together a controversial theory that explains how odorants are detected and transduced. This week he published powerful new evidence that may silence his many critics once and for all.

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