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BrainCraft
The Quantum Power of the Human Nose
Season 3
Episode 21
Your sense of smell is incredible. Inside your nose, odour molecules interact with your senses at the quantum level – you can detect the presence of extra neutrons in a molecule. Lots of the ways we experience the world are on the teeniest, tiniest scale. It's just one of the places that quantum mechanics interacts with biology. Now you nose 👃✨
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