If you were wondering what that strange substance falling from the sky was Tuesday morning, it was rain. After nearly a month ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 48 For mosquitoes, geosmin smells like the perfect place to lay eggs—possibly, Stensmyr says, because cyanobacteria are a good food source for ...

ATTENTION. LISA: I HAVE. THANK YOU, MELANIE. IF YOU WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE SOME RAIN OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED A CERTAIN SMELL THAT CAME ALONG WITH IT. BRIAN: YEAH. WHAT IS ...

Brown University chemists have found the origins of an odor – the sweet smell of fresh dirt. In Nature Chemical Biology, the Brown team shows that the protein that makes geosmin – source of the good ...

Geosmin is a volatile compound of microbial origin with a distinct "earthy" to "musty" odor that can affect the quality of water and food. It is responsible for the typical odor that occurs when rain ...

Geosmin is a volatile compound of microbial origin with a distinct “earthy” to “musty” odor that can affect the quality of water and food. A research team led by Dietmar Krautwurst from the Leibniz ...

Swat! Sting! Ouch! Missed again. A familiar feeling in South Florida as mosquitoes swarm in, lured by our subtropical climate, bite us and cause all sorts of public health problems — like dengue fever ...

Mikael A. Petersen, Md. Ariful Alam, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Md. Lokman Ali, Sultan Mahmud, Louise Schlüter and Niels O. G. Jørgensen ABSTRACT:Pangas Pangasianodon hypophthalmus and tilapia Oreochromis ...

Chemists have figured out precisely how the warm, slightly metallic scent of freshly turned soil is made. The team describes how geosmin, the organic compound responsible for the scent, is produced by ...