"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...

A child experiences a flower by seeing its colors, smelling its fragrance, and imagining a tiny world within it.

Explains the senses and provides simple activities and experiments designed to show how they work.

Learn about how the mouth and nose sense different flavors.

"In 2016, scientists proved that humans could see light at the level of a single photon. We are living in historic times when humans may look at the very fabric of the universe in a laboratory setting. Around the world, other recent discoveries about the senses are just as astounding. It turns out we can hear amplitudes smaller than an atom, smell a trillion scents, have a set of taste buds that can discern molecules of fresh water, and can feel through...

Discusses touch, the three layers of human skin, what skin sensors are, and how blind people use touch to read.

Learn about how the nose can smell different scents and that some smells can be dangerous.