Magnetic reception is the sort of last great unknown sense yer. It's all complicated and counter intuitive. I wrote my first piece of that magnetic reception for new scientist in the late two thousand. There are some ideas, but no one has really nailed it down yet. And i'm just really looking forward to finding out all the stuff that happened in between your final chapter.
In the first episode of our new series Nature hits the books, science journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about his new book An Immense World, which takes a journey through the weird and wonderful realm of animal senses.
In the show, we chat about how our human-centric view of the world has restricted researchers' understanding of animal senses, how to conceptualise what it might be like to be an electric-field sensitive fish, and what bees might make of us blushing...
An Immense World, Ed Yong, Random House (2022)
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