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Human nose can detect 1 trillion odours
Access & Citations
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- 26k
- Article Accesses
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- 15
- Citations
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Online attention
- 278 tweeters
- 6 blogs
- 20 Facebook pages
- 29 Google+ users
- 42 news outlets
- 6 Redditors
- 1 Video uploaders
- 1 Wikipedia page
- 48 Mendeley
This article is in the 99th percentile (ranked 325th) of the 254,644 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 97th percentile (ranked 26th) of the 981 tracked articles of a similar age in Nature
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Mentions in news and blogs
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See the World Through the Eyes of a Butterfly at a New Exhibit on the Senses
Smithsonian Magazine -
Human Nose Can Distinguish a Trillion Scents
Guardian Liberty Voice -
The Nose Knows
The Scientist Magazine -
What our nose knows
Digital Journal -
The Science of Smell
Huffington Post -
A New Day for Digital DNA
Xconomy -
That Old Cafeteria Smell
The Last Word On Nothing -
Scientists Made a Biohybrid Nose Using Cells From Mosquitoes
Singularity Hub -
PSL PSA: science and sentiment of the fall flavor phenomenon
The Daily Nexus -
Why Do Some Smells Trigger Memories?
Mental Floss -
Human nose can detect 1 trillion odours : Nature News & Comment http://ow.ly/uPqFl
Church Leader Pearls
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