There aren't a trillion different smells after all

Neuronaut137 writes: Last year a paper in Science magazine reported that humans can distinguish a trillion different odors (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26638085), a result that had already made it's way into neuroscience and psychology textbooks. Two new papers just published in eLife overturn that result, pointing to fatal flaws in experimental design and data analysis (http://gizmodo.com/humans-probably-cant-smell-one-trillion-different-smell-1716250845). Oh, well; thinking I had a superpower was fun while it lasted.