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Cloning the Smell of the Sea

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the more-than-just-dead-fish dept.

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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  1. Re:intresting by rawn53 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm all for curiousity and discovering stuff, but this sounds really useless.

    Result results results, eh? Science for the sake of science isn't good enough anymore?