Quantum physicists in the 1920s helped found field of quantum biology
Nobel Intent,
Enlarge / There is some evidence that quantum effects might play a role in the process of photosynthesis. (credit: Mikel Bilbao/V…
Enlarge / There is some evidence that quantum effects might play a role in the process of photosynthesis. (credit: Mikel Bilbao/V…
毎日のように有機溶媒を扱っていると、それぞれの匂いで、どれが何だか分かってしまうようになります。匂いごと、意外と好き、好きでも嫌いでもない、耐え難いほど嫌いなど、ひとそれぞれこのみもあるでしょう。似たり寄ったりの化学構造であっても、確かにかぎ分けてしまうとな…
Our sense of smell has been in the news recently, with some new research published into how our noses detect different…
I wrote here and here about Luca Turin's theory that our perception of smell is partly formed by sensing vibrational modes. (Turi…
I had been meaning to write a blog post about this for some time, and the recent news article from the BBC and post by ZapperZ…
Molecular vibrations, rather than molecular shape, give substances their distinct smell according to a new study.
Jacob Aron, reporterThe first evidence from tests on people that our ability to distinguish between different scents involves…