Scientific American organizes some notes on the neurology of scent, with experiments that show the brain distinguishes between similar scents in the same way we hear notes of a song –… Read the rest “Smell makes music inside our brains. Each aroma, a different melody.”
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A brain with its structures, including the eyes and the olfactory bulb, labeled in Russian.
The thinking part.
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Scientific American has an unexpected explanation for the mysterious interstellar object dubbed “‘Oumuamua” that drifted into our solar system in 2017. Maybe the monolithic… Read the rest “Maybe ‘Oumuamua was a hydrogen iceberg. Not a comet. Not an asteroid. Hydrogen.”
The Lancet looks at pandemic spread in the U.S. and finds that the places that seem to respond the best took precautions and stayed home before there were any government policies in place … Read the rest “Best COVID outcomes were where people stayed home on their own, cell phone data shows.”
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