Body & Brain

How Your Nose Smells

Name: How Your Nose Smells
Duration: 78 s
Description: Lock-and-key chemistry: ~400 receptors + 1 trillion patterns. Direct line to memory.

Lock-and-key chemistry: ~400 receptors + 1 trillion patterns. Direct line to memory.

You can smell fresh bread from down the block. Smoke from miles. Mom's cooking through walls. How does your nose pull that off?

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Olfactory ReceptorsLock-and-KeyVOCsMemory Bridge