Arturo Toscanini firmly believed that “the vibrations of high notes beating frequently on a singer’s brain make him stupid.” It is a notion held secretly or sheepishly by a number of music’s leaders, ...

Update (2013): In the years since writing this post, there have been substantial challenges to the vibration theory of smell described in this article. Our sense of smell is really quite incredible.

Two researchers at Rockefeller University have put a controversial theory of smell to the sniff test and have found no evidence to support it. Two researchers at Rockefeller University have put a ...

A new study may bolster a controversial new theory of how our sense of smell works - that our noses use quantum mechanisms to sense vibrations of odor molecules. The quantum-vibration theory ...

Researchers at Rockefeller University have tested a controversial theory of the mechanism of smell and found no evidence to support it. Scientists remain puzzled about how a given molecule is ...

How does a nose generate the signals that the brain registers as smell? The conventional theory says it’s down to the different shapes of smelly molecules. But fruit flies have now distinguished ...

INTRICATE vibration phenomena have at all times attracted the attention of the physical investigator, and vibration theory is a wide field well and fruitfully cultivated by the mathematician. The ...

The discovery of quantum vibrations inside the brain has opened a "Pandora's Box" in terms of theories about levels of consciousness. A 20-year-old theory of consciousness published in the Physics of ...