Marion residents are once again reporting foul-tasting and smelling water. Officials explain the cause, geosmin, and assure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rain after a dry spell produces a particular smell and the main contributor to the smell is geosmin caused by actinobacteria, or ...

There are few better pleasures than the scent that hits our noses after it rains — particularly in the summer months, when rain seems to take on an extra aromatic, earthy smell. People love the smell ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...