Blogs Mar 25, 2014 at 8:15 am

New Study Claims Humans Can Distinguish Up to a Trillion Scents

Charles Mudede
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Those numbers for smell, color and tones really boggle my mind. It's been interesting to dwell on. Thanks.
dnt trust me on March 25, 2014 at 9:15 AM Report this
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This story smells fishy to me. Maybe it was scent as a joke.
Pope Peabrain on March 25, 2014 at 10:25 AM Report this
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The study suggests we can recognize about a trillion COMBINATIONS of scents.

Which is the rough combinatorial equivalent of full-color vision in only 2 pixels.
RonK, Seattle on March 26, 2014 at 10:28 AM Report this

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