Resumen de Our quantum society

Andrei Khrennikov, Emmanuel Haven

• Khrennikov and Haven discuss the growing evidence that quantum mechanical processes can occur on a macroscopic level. Anton Zeilinger of the University of Vienna, Austria, and colleagues showed that one of the key features of quantum mechanics, the interference of an electron with itself, exists even in very large molecules called buckyballs. And in a recent study of the sense of smell, it was proposed that a quantum mechanism is involved when odor molecules activate receptors in the nose.