The one scent your nose beats a shark at
A shark's sense of smell is the stuff of legend — a trace of blood in a vast volume of water. Your own nose is usually treated as feeble by comparison. For one specific smell, that ranking flips entirely, and it is a smell you already know by heart: the air just before rain. Today's secret is the molecule behind it, and just how sensitive to it you really are.
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