Today, you’ll learn about how the human sense of smell may be much better than we ever thought, how the bones inside your body are having interesting conversations with your organs, and a new innovation in desalination technology that uses significantly less energy than its predecessors.
What’s that smell?
- “Let’s obliterate the myth that humans have a bad sense of smell” by Brian Resnick
- “Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans” by Jess Porter et Brent Craven, Rehan M Khan, Shao-Ju Chang, Irene Kang, Benjamin Judkewitz, Jason Volpe, Gary Settles & Noam Sobel
- “Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli” by C. Bushdidm, O. Magnascol, B. Vosshalland, and A. Keller
- “Poor human olfaction is a 19th-century myth” by John P. Mcgann
- https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aam7263
Your body talks without talking.
- “How Bones Communicate With the Rest of the Body” by Amber Dance
- “Bones make hormones that communicate with the brain and other organs” by Cassie Martin
- “Bone-to-Brain: A Round Trip in the Adaptation to Mechanical Stimuli” by Laura Gerosa and Biovanni Lombardi
Water with salt on the side, please.
- “Modular Solar PV and Tidal Power Desalination Buoys from Canada” by Ryan Kennedy
- “Wave-Powered Desalination Buoys” by Solar Impulse Foundation
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