Cloning the Smell of the Sea 143
An anonymous reader wrote in with an article that opens: "Scientists from the University of East Anglia have discovered exactly what makes the seaside smell like the seaside — and bottled it. The age-old mystery was unlocked thanks to some novel bacteria plucked from the North Norfolk coast." The responsible substance, dimethyl sulfide, in addition to smelling like the coast, also acts as a homing scent for birds looking to feast on plankton.
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Result results results, eh? Science for the sake of science isn't good enough anymore?
Seven Seas and More Smells (Score:2, Insightful)
Different seas. Different tides. Different seasons. Different weather. Very different smells. I've lived on Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf and Great Lakes. I've visited the Eastern and Western shores of them, the eastern reach of the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, Mediterranean, North, Irish, Marmara and other seas. They've all got different, distinctive smells, which themselves vary.
When scientists can bottle that, an everchanging ocean of sea smells, they've really got something. Until then, they've just got some dirty water.
Smell long available to brewers..... (Score:3, Insightful)
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