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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 ...

The rain doesn’t actually provide any scent itself; rather, the impact of the drops on rocks and soil splashes an oily, bacteria-made substance into the air, creating that distinctive aroma now known ...

Call me. And so I called. Clouds, wetter than the dry air, come. Let there be bold lightning strokes and thunder like tympani ...

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 ...

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 ...

In fact, the ancient Greeks called this scent “petrichor”. So next time you're sheltering from an unexpected shower, take a sniff, and know what you're smelling. 2. Where did my rain go?