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Your Quantum Nose: How Smell Works
This video summarises the two models of smell: shape theory and vibration theory, and concludes that you need both to explain how we smell.
That settles it then, we're not only becoming cyborgs, we have super powers. Now who's working on that nose laser? In all seriousness, this is fascinating, that study on bees should also be done to bloodhounds!
I loved this video! Never really thought about how something so seemingly simple as the nose has such a complex job in deciphering the nature of smell. Do you have any more resources on the vibration model?
The entire field of mathematics summarised in a single map! This shows how pure mathematics and applied mathematics relate to each other and all of the sub-topics they are made from.