Today, you’ll learn about how the human sense of smell may be much better than we ever thought, how the bones inside your body are having interesting conversations with your organs, and a new innovation in desalination technology that uses significantly less energy than its predecessors.

What’s that smell?

• “Let’s obliterate the myth that humans have a bad sense of smell” by Brian Resnick
  • https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/11/15614748/human-smell-good-science
• “Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans” by Jess Porter et Brent Craven, Rehan M Khan, Shao-Ju Chang, Irene Kang, Benjamin Judkewitz, Jason Volpe, Gary Settles & Noam Sobel
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1819
• “Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli” by C. Bushdidm, O. Magnascol, B. Vosshalland, and A. Keller
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1249168
• “Poor human olfaction is a 19th-century myth” by John P. Mcgann
  • https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aam7263

Your body talks without talking.

• “How Bones Communicate With the Rest of the Body” by Amber Dance
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-bones-communicate-with-the-rest-of-the-body-180979643/
• “Bones make hormones that communicate with the brain and other organs” by Cassie Martin
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bones-make-hormones-communicate-brain-and-other-organs
• “Bone-to-Brain: A Round Trip in the Adaptation to Mechanical Stimuli” by Laura Gerosa and Biovanni Lombardi
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.623893/full#:~:text=Thus%2C%20bone%20emerges%20as%20a,act%20at%20the%20brain%20level.

Water with salt on the side, please.

• “Modular Solar PV and Tidal Power Desalination Buoys from Canada” by Ryan Kennedy
  • https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/04/11/modular-solar-pv-and-tidal-power-desalination-buoys-from-canada/
• “Wave-Powered Desalination Buoys” by Solar Impulse Foundation
  • https://solarimpulse.com/solutions-explorer/wave-powered-desalination-buoys\

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