11 YRS OLD EXPOSES MONSANTO AND TELLS MONSANTO WHERE THEY CAN SHOVE IT .. BRAVE CHILD. UK cyclist records driver assault on video. RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us. Michio Kaku: The Intelligence Revolution. La fabrique des pauvres - Documentaire ARTE. 'Quantum smell' idea gains ground. 27 January 2013Last updated at 19:05 ET By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News The BBC's Jason Palmer visits a perfume store to find out more A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a quantum physics effect has received a boost, following experiments with human subjects. It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends only on the shapes of molecules we sniff in the air.
Instead, it suggests that the molecules' vibrations are responsible. A way to test it is with two molecules of the same shape, but with different vibrations. Tantalisingly, the idea hints at quantum effects occurring in biological systems - an idea that is itself driving a new field of science, as the BBC feature article Are birds hijacking quantum physics? But the theory - first put forward by Luca Turin, now of the Fleming Biomedical Research Sciences Centre in Greece - remains contested and divisive. Of horses and unicorns Continue reading the main story “Start Quote.