Of Dollars and Scents: On the Trail of Sandalwood Oil

Geophysicist Roger Turpening has discovered how to detect the oil-rich heartwood inside living sandalwood trees, a system that could one day be used to find flaws in sawlogs. And he recently turbo-charged the process, thanks to a pair of computer-savvy freshmen.

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