Sniff study suggests humans can distinguish more than 1 trillion scents

Rockefeller researchers tested the sensitivity of volunteers' noses and brains, and determined that the human sense of smell is far more refined than previously thought. While individual volunteers' performance varied, on average people can tell the difference between complex mixtures of odors even when they contain many of the same components. More »

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