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Why do my flowers only smell nice at night?

Ask the Naked Scientists

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The Benefits of Learning to Smell

Chris Smith answers the questions that keep us awake at night. The question is does learning the art music painting etc provide the health benefits to an individual particularly as one gets older. We have 30 seconds I don't know if you can do justice to this follow up question about plants. Can you help with a more chemical explanation of how scent molecules must undergo some change to make the scent evident to human noses? Chris Smith: "I think it's part of a big picture where all of these factors play together"

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