It Smells Quantastic, Doesn’t It?

(Sources images: pixabay, pubchem, and Queensland Brain Institute)

Have you ever wondered how we know how something smells? I mean, the volatile molecules entering your nose have to tell your brain in one way or another: “Hey, it’s me!”.

But how do these messages get up there in the first place?

To find the answers to these questions, we need to turn to chemical messaging and electrical signaling between our nose and brain as well as within our…