These Bugs Produce Smelly Defenses That Need to Be Heard to Be Believed

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🗓️ 31 October 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

You read that right. Researchers have taken the chemical defenses of some insects and turned them into sounds , which, it turns out, repel people just as well.

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0:00.0	One day, you'll realise it's time to switch things up.
0:02.7	Bill, please.
0:03.5	No, lunch is on me.
0:04.9	That's my points.
0:06.1	Well, that's the first.
0:07.6	Or...
0:08.2	Sorry, working late.
0:10.1	Again, booking our hotel in Rome.
0:12.9	Really?
0:13.5	Or even...
0:14.3	Oh, look at that queue.
0:16.0	Axe card member entrance instead.
0:18.1	Uh, yes, please.
0:19.4	American Express.
0:20.4	Don't live life without it.
0:22.9	Example product, preferred rewards goal credit card,
0:25.1	represented at APR 73.8% variable,
0:27.6	subject to status 18 plus season C supply.
0:35.6	This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science.
0:38.9	I'm Karen Hawking.
0:43.0	Some sounds are spooky.
0:49.4	Some are unpleasant.
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