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You might just know it as the smell of rain, but it has an official name: petrichor. The name, coined in 1964 by Australian scientists Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Grenfell Thomas, comes from the ...

This explains the phenomenon called petrichor, which refers to the distinct scent following a light rain after a dry spell. Two Australian researchers coined the term in 1964, when they published ...

1. The smell of rain (petrichor) has a calming effect Have you ever noticed the smell of rain? Or rather, the smell of the ground and air when it is raining? If not, the next time you’re out in ...

Their new short film, Petrichor—the term describing the smell of soil after first rain—reflects their worldview that Christianity and queerness are not in binary opposition. Booth wrote the ...