Scientists: Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs

It's a punchline that sends every 12-year-old boy into a fit of giggles. Now it has been proven to be true. Uranus stinks! Scientists using a huge telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano found the seventh planet from the sun is surrounded by clouds made up of hydrogen sulfide, the gas that smells like rotten eggs and bad flatulence. The study by scientists from the California Institute of Technology, University of Oxford and the University of Leicester was published in the...

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