Humans can distinguish at least one trillion different odors
March 25, 2014
Howard Hughes Medical Institute(HHMI) scientists have tested the olfactory capacity of human volunteers and found that humans are capable of discriminating at least one trillion different odors — not just 10,000 different odors, a number first proposed decades ago and not backed by data.
HHMI investigator Leslie Vosshall, who studies olfaction at the Rockefeller University, and Andreas Keller, a senior… read more
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